Relationships

Going to the Mountains with a Little Dancing Girl, Aged Fifteen

by Po Chü-i 772–846

Translated by Arthur Waley (1918) · From A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918)

Relationships

Two top-knots not yet plaited into one.
Of thirty years--just beyond half.
You who are really a lady of silks and satins
Are now become my hill and stream companion!
At the spring fountains together we splash and play:
On the lovely trees together we climb and sport.
Her cheeks grow rosy, as she quickens her sleeve-dancing:
Her brows grow sad, as she slows her song’s tune.
Don’t go singing the Song of the Willow Branches,
When there’s no one here with a heart for you to break!

MLA

Chü-i, Po. “Going to the Mountains with a Little Dancing Girl, Aged Fifteen.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/po-chu-i/51/.

Chicago

Chü-i, Po. “Going to the Mountains with a Little Dancing Girl, Aged Fifteen.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/po-chu-i/51/.

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