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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PEOPLE HIDE THEIR LOVE, by WU-TI (464-549)
First Line: Who says
Last Line: Like the flower that seems too precious to be picked?
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love
First Line: Who says
Last Line: Like the flower that seems too precious to be picked?
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love
WHO says
That it's by my desire,
This separation, this living so far from you?
My dress still smells of the lavender you gave:
My hand still holds the letter that you sent.
Round my waist I wear a double sash:
I dream that it binds us both with a same-heart knot.
Did not you know that people hide their love,
Like the flower that seems too precious to be picked?
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