Catching the edge of your shirt
- Poetry of Meng Jiao

《欲别牵郎衣》
Catching the edge of your shirt by Meng Jiao
中文原文( Chinese )

欲别牵郎衣，郎今到何处。

不恨归来迟，莫向临邛去。

English Translation

Catching the edge of your shirt,

"Where are you going to this time?"

I don't worry you come back after you promised,

i just wish you won't go to Linqiong.

Meng Jiao:孟郊(AD751-814),he's a studious poet who paid a lot of time to learn how to write poems.Most of his poems are very natural and simple.He hardly wrote the love poems,so his love poems look like the folk with the smell of the village.

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