SPRING ---Xue Tao Blossoms of spring flowers bring us different joy & different sorrow when they fall If you ask me when I miss you the most: when flowers blossom when flowers wither + ---Translation by Z.Z. + from 春望词四首 花开不同赏, 花落不同悲。 欲问相思处, 花开花落时。 薛涛(?~832至835),唐代女诗人。字洪度,一作宏度。长安(今陕西西安)人。父薛郧,仕宦入蜀,死后,妻女流寓蜀中。薛涛姿容美艳,性敏慧,8岁能诗,洞晓音律,多才艺,声名倾动一时。德宗贞元(785~804)中,韦皋任剑南西川节度使,召令赋诗侑酒,遂入乐籍。 |