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

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Hwang Jini

Ah, What Have I Done?

Ah, what have I done—as though I didn’t

know my feelings would remain.

I would not add the few

words that would keep him.

I want to understand the joy

I felt as I was letting him go.