Wang Wei 王維
mid-8th century · Tang China · Red beans were called the seeds of longing. The second line is widely known as "when spring comes, how many branches bloom?"; the text here follows the Complete Tang Poems
Red beans grow in the southern land; when autumn comes they sprout on the old branches. Gather as many as you can, I beg you: nothing speaks of longing as these do.
紅豆生南國，秋來發故枝。
願君多采擷，此物最相思。"Longing," in the Complete Tang Poems
In the same thread
Cui Hu 崔護
c. 796 · Tang China
Last year, on this day, inside this gate, a face and the peach blossoms shone red upon each other. Where that face has gone I do not know. The peach blossoms smile in the spring wind as before.
去年今日此門中，人面桃花相映紅。
人面不知何處在，桃花依舊笑春風。"Written at a Village South of the Capital"
Jin Changxu 金昌緒
c. 8th–9th century · Yuhang, Tang China · In the voice of a wife trying to meet in her dreams a man gone to the far frontier of Liaoxi
Chase the oriole away. Do not let it sing on the bough. Its singing breaks my dream, and I cannot reach Liaoxi.
打起黃鶯兒，莫教枝上啼。
啼時驚妾夢，不得到遼西。"Spring Lament"
The singer of "Cheongsan byeolgok"
c. 13th–14th century · Goryeo Korea
Cry, cry, bird; wake from sleep and cry, bird. I, with more sorrows than you, wake from sleep and cry too.
우러라 우러라 새여 자고 니러 우러라 새여.
널라와 시름 한 나도 자고 니러 우니로라."Cheongsan byeolgok" (Song of the Green Hills), second stanza, in Akjang gasa
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