Nature
Flowers and Moonlight on the Spring River
Translated by Arthur Waley (1918) · From A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918)
Nature
The evening river is level and motionless--
The spring colours just open to their full.
Suddenly a wave carries the moon away
And the tidal water comes with its freight of stars.
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Yang-ti. “Flowers and Moonlight on the Spring River.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yang-ti/0/.
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Yang-ti. “Flowers and Moonlight on the Spring River.” Translated by Arthur Waley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yang-ti/0/.