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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RUINS OF LO-YANG, by TS'AO CHIH First Line: I climb to the ridge of pei mang mountain Last Line: I am heart-tied and cannot speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-chien Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Ruins | |||
I CLIMB to the ridge of Pei Mang Mountain And look down on the city of Lo-yang. In Lo-yang how still it is! Palaces and houses all burnt to ashes. Walls and fences all broken and gaping, Thorns and brambles shooting up to the sky. I do not see the old old-men: I only see the new young men. I turn aside, for the straight road is lost: The fields are overgrown and will never be ploughed again. I have been away such a long time That I do not know which street is which. How sad and ugly the empty moors are! A thousand miles without the smoke of a chimney. I think of the house I lived in all those years: I am heart-tied and cannot speak. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 6. RUINS OF PAESTUM by SARA TEASDALE WHERE A ROMAN VILLA STOOD, ABOVE FREIBURG' by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE THE RAVAGED VILLA by HERMAN MELVILLE HYMN AMONG THE RUINS by OCTAVIO PAZ OZYMANDIAS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ODE TO LUDLOW CASTLE by LUCY AIKEN RUINS OF CORINTH by ANTIPATER OF SIDON SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: TENNESSEE CLAFLIN SHOPE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WILLIAM AND EMILY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |
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