I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful ...

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

By Adrienne Rich The river-fog will do for privacy on the low road a breath here， there， a cloudiness floating on the black top sunflower heads turned black and bowed ...

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...

AT A BORDER-FORTRESS         Wang Changling    Cicadas complain of thin mulberry-trees        In the Eight...

——W.H.Auden/W.H.   Looking up at the stars， I know quite well That， for all they care， I can go to hell， But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread ...

Let it be forgotten，as a flower is forgotten， Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold. Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend，he will make us old. If...

To whom I owe the leaping delight That quickens my senses in our waking-time And the rhythm that governs the repose of our sleeping-time, the breathing in unison. Of lovers whose b...

  If you were a teardrop； In my eye， For fear of losing you， I would never cry. And if the golden sun， Should cease to shine its light， Just one smile from ...

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life‘s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they be...