Remembering by Yuan Chen
Remembering
Yuan ChenI daydream, melancholy at the windowsill—
memories I will never tell—our passion is the late night hours,
our tearful goodbyes at dawn.Mountains and rivers divide us,
I’ve given up hoping for rain.Divided, I dream of you today—
I even embrace the pain.
MARGINALIA
Can’t sleep. Still thinking about you anyhow.
ABOUT YUAN CHEN
Yuan Zhen (born 779, Luoyang, Henan province, China—died 831, Wuchang, Hubei province) was a key literary figure of the middle Tang dynasty of China, influential in the guwen (“ancient-style prose”) revival, which employed the styles of the early classical Chinese writers. (Source)
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