<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391330" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">After Li Po</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While my hair was still cut straight <br> across my forehead<br>I played at the front gate, pulling<br> flowers.<br>You came by on bamboo stilts, playing<br> horse,<br>You walked about my seat, playing with<br> blue plums. <br>And we went on living in the village of <br> Chokan:<br>Two small people, without dislike or <br> suspicion. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At fourteen I married My Lord you.<br>I never laughed, being bashful.<br>Lowering my head, I looked at the wall.<br>Called to, a thousand times, I never<br> looked back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At fifteen I stopped scowling, <br>I desired my dust to be mingled with<br> yours<br>Forever and forever and forever.<br>Why should I climb the lookout?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At sixteen you departed,<br>You went into far Ku-to-en, by the river<br> of swirling eddies,<br>And you have been gone five months.<br>The monkeys make sorrowful noise <br> overhead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You dragged your feet when you went <br> out,<br>By the gate now, the moss is grown, <br> the different mosses,<br>Too deep to clear them away!<br>The leaves fall early this autumn, in <br> wind.<br>The paired butterflies are already <br> yellow with August<br>Over the grass in the West garden;<br>They hurt me. I grow older.<br>If you are coming down through the<br> narrows of the river Kiang,<br>Please let me know beforehand,<br>And I will come out to meet you<br> As far as Cho-fu-sa.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Translated by Ezra Pound</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Anonymous submission.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ezra+Pound">Ezra Pound</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391330" data-title="The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter de Ezra Pound" data-description="After Li Po While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played at the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums. And we went on living in the vi..."></div> </div> </div>

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