Uploaded on June 24, 2011
Blue, blue is the grass about the river
and the willows have overfilled the close garden.
And within, the mistress, in the midmost of her youth,
white, white of face, hesitates, passing the door.
Slender, she puts forth a slender hand;
and she was a courtesan in the old days,
and she has married a sot,
who now goes drunkenly out
and leaves her too much alone.
—Mei Sheng (ca. 140 BC)
Translated by Ezra Pound
The Giant Book of Poetry
edited by William H. Roetzheim
6.24.2023: Bridget put up with a lot in helping me create images for my Poetic Inspirations project. I hope I wasn’t too terrible as a director.