唐代 秦韬玉 Qin Taoyu  唐代  
A Poor Girl
The music diction Purple Monkey Ma
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guishu
读五侯传
Spring Snow
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寄李处士
registration
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inscribe The ministry of punishments in feudal china Li Lang In shanting
八月十五日夜同卫谏议看月
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bianjiang
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织锦妇
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Sui embankment
Sky Street
Q Gu
a well-known (rich and) powerful family
Chen Gong
Multiple poems at a time
Qiyan lushi,a poem of eight lines
贫女
贫女

A Poor Girl
贫女

   Qin Taoyu

Living under a thatch roof, never wearing fragrant silk,
She longs to arrange a marriage, but how could she dare?
Who would know her simple face the loveliest of them all
When we choose for worldliness, not for worth?
Her fingers embroider beyond compare,
But she cannot vie with painted brows;
And year after year she has sewn gold thread
On bridal robes for other girls.


    Translator: Witter Bynner
  

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