Nature
A White Night
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Nature
The incense-stick is burnt to ash, the water-clock is stilled,
The midnight breeze blows sharply by and all around is chilled.
Yet I am kept from slumber by the beauty of the spring:
Sweet shapes of flowers across the blind the quivering moonbeams fling!
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An-shih, Wang. “A White Night.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wang-an-shih/0/.
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An-shih, Wang. “A White Night.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wang-an-shih/0/.
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