Love
The Last Night
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Love
Old love would seem as though not love today;
Spell-bound by thee, my laughter dies away.
The very wax sheds sympathetic tears
And gutters sadly down till dawn appears.
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Mu, Tu. “The Last Night.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tu-mu/2/.
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Mu, Tu. “The Last Night.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tu-mu/2/.
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