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

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Songi

The River of Stars

 

The river of stars must have flooded

over your bridge of magpies and crows

for you, who guide a bull of heaven,

not to know how to cross to my side.

I am a weaver who can only wait

with a weaver’s heart.

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