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On Hearing Someone Sing a Poem by Yüan Chēn
Translated by Arthur Waley (1918) · From A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918)
Relationships
No new poems his brush will trace:
Even his fame is dead.
His old poems are deep in dust
At the bottom of boxes and cupboards.
Once lately, when someone was singing,
Suddenly I heard a verse--
Before I had time to catch the words
A pain had stabbed my heart.
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Chü-i, Po. “On Hearing Someone Sing a Poem by Yüan Chēn.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/po-chu-i/55/.
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Chü-i, Po. “On Hearing Someone Sing a Poem by Yüan Chēn.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/po-chu-i/55/.
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