Chance by Xu Zhimo I am a cloud in the sky, A chance shadow on the wave of your heart. Don‘t be surprised, Or too elated; In an instant I shall vanish without trace. We mee...

  The Selling of a Soul   A poet struggling with the world‘s condition, Prostitution of talents and the bondage With which the bulk of men have been deceived, I am ...

Mouse-ear I pick and pick mouse-ear But can‘t my basket load. Sick for my husband dear, I leave it by the road. The mountain is too steep For my thin horse to climb. I pour wine ...

EAST OF THE TOWN                          Wei Yingwu  ...

      ON A GATE-TOWER AT YUZHOU       Chen Ziang          Where, before me, are the ages that h...

Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and...

My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife: 我的心肝，我的挚爱，我美丽的贤妻， Marrying you has screwed up my life. 我这辈子就毁在你手里。 I see your face when I am dreaming. 你的容...

I took myself out on a date and said I‘m looking grand, and when I got my courage up I asked to hold my hand. I took me to a restaurant and then a movie show. I put my arm around ...

Mooring by Maple Bridge At Night At moonset cry the crows, streaking the frosty sky;   Dimly lit fishing boats‘neath maples sadly lie. Beyond the city wall, form Temple of ...

When I Was One-and-Twenty When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your...