Love
Gone
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Love
The sound of rustling silk is stilled,
With dust the marble courtyard filled;
No footfalls echo on the floor,
Fallen leaves in heaps block up the door....
For she, my pride, my lovely one is lost.
And I am left, in hopeless anguish tossed.
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Han, Wu-ti of. “Gone.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wu-ti-han/3/.
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Han, Wu-ti of. “Gone.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wu-ti-han/3/.
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