Trois lectures
← Chinese Poetry in English Verse

A Rencontre

杂诗 · Wang Wei (王维)

Sir, from my dear old home you come, And all its glories you can name; Oh tell me, — has the winter-plum Yet blossomed o’er the window-frame?

Herbert A. Giles, Chinese Poetry in English Verse, 1898, p. 56. Public domain.