Jin Changxu 金昌緒

poet · Yuhang, Tang China · c. 8th–9th century

Nothing is known of him except that he was a man of Yuhang in Tang times. One poem survives.

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c. 8th–9th century · 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"