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On Board Ship: Reading Yüan Chēn’s Poems
Translated by Arthur Waley (1918) · From A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918)
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I take your poems in my hand and read them beside the candle;
The poems are finished: the candle is low: dawn not yet come.
With sore eyes by the guttering candle still I sit in the dark,
Listening to waves that, driven by the wind, strike the prow of
the ship.
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MLA
Chü-i, Po. “On Board Ship: Reading Yüan Chēn’s Poems.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/po-chu-i/23/.
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Chü-i, Po. “On Board Ship: Reading Yüan Chēn’s Poems.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/po-chu-i/23/.
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