Saturday, March 23, 2013

SPRING POEM

[Enjoy this pensive spring poem by Tu Fu, one of the greatest Chinese poets, writing during the Tang Dynasty of imperial China.]

A Spring View
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Tu Fu (c. 750, trans. Witter Bynner, 1920)
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Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure;
And spring comes green again to trees and grasses
Where petals have been shed like tears
And lonely birds have sung their grief.
...After the war-fires of three months,
One message from home is worth a ton of gold.
...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin
To hold the hairpins any more.



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