Songs of the Kisaeng: Courtesan Poetry of the Last Korean Dynasty by Hwang Jini et al. - HTML preview

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Maehwa

What Blight

 

What blight is this eating into my desire

for a man, for whose vows I pledged my life?

There are times when thinking on my

thinking of him lets me read the signs.

Not a word to him—who is he

to know what lies in my far sight?

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