Love
A Lost Love
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Love
Too late, alas! I came to find the lovely spring had fled.
Yet must I not regret the days of youth that now are dead;
For though the rosy buds of spring the cruel winds have laid,
Behold the clustering fruit that hangs beneath the leafy shade!
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Mu, Tu. “A Lost Love.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tu-mu/0/.
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