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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COCK-CROW SONG, by ANONYMOUS First Line: "in the eastern quarter dawn breaks, the stars flicker pale" Last Line: "round the palace and up by the castle, the crows and magpies are flying" Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.) | |||
IN the eastern quarter dawn breaks, the stars flicker pale. The morning cock at Ju-nan mounts the wall and crows. The songs are over, the clock run down, but still the feast is set. The moon grows dim and the stars are few; morning has come to the world. At a thousand gates and ten thousand doors the fish-shaped keys turn; Round the Palace and up by the Castle, the crows and magpies are flying. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YEARS VANISH LIKE THE MORNING DEW by MEI SHENG THE MAN-WIND AND THE WOMAN-WIND by SUNG YU BLAMING SONS (AN APOLOGY FOR HIS OWN DRUNKENNESS) by T'AO CH'IEN READING THE BOOK OF HILLS AND SEAS by T'AO CH'IEN RETURNING TO THE FIELDS by T'AO CH'IEN TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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