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While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums. (Li Po (701-762), Chinese poet. The River Merchant's Wife; a Letter (l. 1-4). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older. (Li Po (701-762), Chinese poet. The River Merchant's Wife; a Letter (l. 23-25). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
At fourteen I married My Lord you. (Li Po (701-762), Chinese poet. The River Merchant's Wife; a Letter (l. 7). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever. Why should I climb the look out? (Li Po (701-762), Chinese poet. The River Merchant's Wife; a Letter (l. 12-14). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
Ah, how shall you know the dreary sorrow at the North Gate, With Li Po's name forgotten, And we guardsmen fed to the tigers. (Li Po (701-762), Chinese poet. Lament of the Frontier Guard (l. 21-23). . . Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation, The. Charles Tomlinson, ed. (1980) Oxford University Press.)
By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand, Lonely from the beginning of time until now! Trees fall, the grass goes yellow with autumn. (Li Po (701-762), Chinese poet. Lament of the Frontier Guard (l. 1-3). . . Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation, The. Charles Tomlinson, ed. (1980) Oxford University Press.)
Please let me know beforehand, And I will come out to meet you As far as Cho-fu-Sa. (Li Po (701-762), Chinese poet. The River Merchant's Wife; a Letter (l. 27-29). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
