Love

The Tung Mun Che Yang

by Shi Jing (The Book of Songs) poems c. 1000–600 BC; compilation traditionally ascribed to Confucius

Translated by James Legge (1876) · From The She King (1876), Part I, Book XII

Love

Where grow the willows near the eastern gate,
And ’neath their leafy shade we could recline,
She said at evening she would me await,
And brightly now I see the day star shine !

Here where the willows near the eastern gate
Grow, and their dense leaves make a shady gloom,
She said at evening she would me await.
See now the morning star the sky illume!

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The failure of an assignation.

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Shi Jing (The Book of Songs). “The Tung Mun Che Yang.” Translated by James Legge. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shi-jing/135/.

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Shi Jing (The Book of Songs). “The Tung Mun Che Yang.” Translated by James Legge. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shi-jing/135/.

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