2 Quotes by Li Qing Zhao

  • Author Li Qing Zhao
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    Stepping down from the swing,Languidly she smooths her soft slender hands,Her flimsy dress wet with light perspirationA slim flower trembling with heavy dew.Spying a stranger, she walks hastily away in shyness:Her feet in bare socks,Her gold hairpin fallen.Then she stops to lean against a gate,And looking back,Makes as if sniffing a green plum

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Stepping down from the swing,Languidly she smooths her soft slender hands,Her flimsy dress wet with light perspirationA slim flower trembling with heavy dew.Spying a stranger, she walks hastily away in shyness:Her feet in bare socks,Her gold hairpin fallen.Then she stops to lean against a gate,And looking back,Makes as if sniffing a green plum

-Li Qing Zhao

  • Author Li Qing Zhao
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    Last night there was intermittent rain, a gusty wind.Deep sleep did not relieve me ofThe last effects of wine.I ask the maid rolling up the blinds,But she replies: "The crab-apple is lovely as before.""Don't you know?""Oh, don't you know?""The green should be plump and the red lean?

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    #chinese #classic #nostalgia #poetry
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Last night there was intermittent rain, a gusty wind.Deep sleep did not relieve me ofThe last effects of wine.I ask the maid rolling up the blinds,But she replies: "The crab-apple is lovely as before.""Don't you know?""Oh, don't you know?""The green should be plump and the red lean?

-Li Qing Zhao

 

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