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ON HEARING SOMEONE SONG A POEM BY YUAN CHEN, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No new poems his brush will trace
Last Line: A pain had stabbed my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Poetry & Poets


No new poems his brush will trace:
Even his fame is dead.
His old poems are deep in dust
At the bottom of boxes and cupboards.
Once lately, when someone was singing,
Suddenly I heard a verse --
Before I had time to catch the words
A pain had stabbed my heart.





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