Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DREAMING OF YUAN CHEN, by PO CHU-YI Poet's Biography First Line: At night you came and took my hand and we wandered together in my dream Last Line: Among the shadows of the terrace of night did you know them or not? Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares | ||||||||
AT night you came and took my hand and we wandered together in my dream; When I woke in the morning there was no one to stop the tears that fell on my handkerchief. On the banks of the ch'ang my aged body three times has passed through sickness; At Hsien-yang to the grasses on your grave eight times has autumn come. You lie buried beneath the springs and your bones are mingled with the clay. I -- lodging in the world of men; my hair white as snow. A-wei and Han-lang both followed in their turn; Among the shadows of the Terrace of Night did you know them or not? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS MADLY SINGING IN THE MOUNTAINS by PO CHU-YI |
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