The Orchid Door: Ancient Korean Poems by Tr. Joan S.Grigsby - HTML preview

PLEASE NOTE: This is an HTML preview only and some elements such as links or page numbers may be incorrect.
Download the book in PDF, ePub, Kindle for a complete version.

Remembering “Rising Moon”

Anon.




Why did you fade into the dawn so soon?

Far, far away beyond the yellow hill

So-Tong-pa made a thousand songs for you,

Yet could not hold you when the morning dew

Fled from the grass. Men dream about you still.

Where are you now, O little Rising Moon?