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

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Anonymous

If Tears Were Pearls

 

If tears were pearls, I would have

held mine back, those ten waited years,

to build a palace of pearl

to have him sit within.

There there is nothing now,

that is my new sorrow.

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