PagineHearing a Bamboo Flute on a Spring Night in the City of Lo Yang
by Li Po (Li Bai)
Translated by Florence Ayscough & Amy Lowell (1921) · From Fir-Flower Tablets
From whose house do the invisible notes of a jade flute come flying?
The Spring wind scatters them. They fill the City of Lo Yang.
To-night, as the phrases form, I hear "The Snapped Willow."
To whom do they not bring back the love of his old, early garden?
This poem and this translation are in the public domain. Source text: Project Gutenberg.