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GAZING AT SPRING
Xue Tao
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Flowers bloom
no one
to enjoy them with.

Flowers fall
no one
with whom to grieve

I wonder when love's
longings stir us most

When flowers bloom
or when flowers fall?
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translated by Jeanne Larsen

This is a work in progress.

 
Xue Tao
薛涛

ca. 770–832

Chinese poet and courtesan of the Tang dynasty. She was one of the most renouned writers of Tang poetry.

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Jeffri Lynn Carrington
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