by Ch'üan Tê-Yü (759 - 818)
Translation by Herbert Allen Giles (1845 - 1935)
Hope
Language: English after the Chinese (中文)
Last eve thou wert a bride, This morn thy dream is o'er... Cast not thy rouge aside, He may be thine once more.
Confirmed with Chinese Poetry in English Verse by Herbert Giles, London: Bernard Quaritch; Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., 1898, p. 109.
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Text Authorship:
- by Herbert Allen Giles (1845 - 1935), "Hope", appears in Chinese Poetry in English Verse, first published 1898 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Ch'üan Tê-Yü (759 - 818) [text unavailable]
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