Li Qingzhao 李清照
early 12th century · Song China · Missing her husband, far away
There is no way to get rid of this feeling. It has only just left my brow when it rises in my heart.
此情無計可消除，才下眉頭，卻上心頭。To the tune "A Sprig of Plum Blossom"
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Nameless people 詩經 無名氏
c. 7th century BC · Zhou China
Blue, blue is your collar. Long, long is my longing. Even though I do not go to you, why do you send no word?
青青子衿，悠悠我心。
縱我不往，子寧不嗣音？"Your Collar" (Zi jin), Airs of Zheng, in the Book of Songs
Hwang Jini 黃眞伊
16th century (recorded in a songbook of 1728) · Joseon Korea
I will cut the waist out of the long, long night of the eleventh month, and coil it away under a quilt of spring wind, and on the night my love comes, uncoil it turn by turn.
冬至ㅅᄃᆞᆯ 기나긴 밤을 한허리를 버혀 내여
春風 니불 아레 서리서리 너헛다가
어론 님 오신 날 밤이여든 구뷔구뷔 펴리라Cheonggu yeongeon (1728)
Xue Tao 薛濤
early 9th century · Tang China
The flowers open and we do not enjoy them together. The flowers fall and we do not grieve together. If you ask when I long for you most: when the flowers open, and when the flowers fall.
花開不同賞，花落不同悲。
欲問相思處，花開花落時。"Spring Gazing," the first poem, in the Complete Tang Poems
Choe Gyeongchang 崔慶昌
c. 1574 · Joseon Korea · A sijo in Korean that Hongnang sent him, turned into a Chinese poem by Choe Gyeongchang
I break a willow branch and send it to you a thousand li away. Plant it for me, please, before your window. And if one night new leaves come out, know this: the worn, sad eyebrows are mine.
折楊柳寄與千里人 爲我試向庭前種
須知一夜新生葉 憔悴愁眉是妾身Gojuk yugo, "A Song Put into Chinese"
Yu Huigyeong 劉希慶
late 16th century · Joseon Korea · Gyerang is Maechang, the gisaeng of Buan
Your house is in Buan, my house is in the capital. Longing, and never meeting: my heart breaks with the rain on the paulownia leaves.
娘家在浪州 我家住京口
相思不相見 腸斷梧桐雨Chon'eun jip, "Thinking of Gyerang"
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