Nature
At a Park Gate
Translated by Herbert A. Giles (1898) · From Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898)
Nature
'Tis closed! — lest trampling footsteps mar the glory of the green.
Time after time we knock and knock; no janitor is seen.
Yet bolts and bars can't quite shut in the spring-time's beauteous pall:
A pink-flowered almond-spray peeps out athwart the envious wall!
Cite this poem
MLA
Shih, Yeh. “At a Park Gate.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeh-shih/0/.
Chicago
Shih, Yeh. “At a Park Gate.” Translated by Herbert A. Giles. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeh-shih/0/.