Farewell (Graceful and Tender at Thirteen)
贈別 (娉娉褭褭十三餘) · Three Hundred Tang Poems
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Farewell (Graceful and Tender at Thirteen)
Graceful and slender, just past thirteen,
A cardamom bud in the second month of spring.
Ten miles of Yangzhou road in the breeze—
No pearl-curled beauty could compare with this.
贈別 (娉娉褭褭十三餘)
娉娉褭褭十三餘，
荳蔻梢頭二月初。
春風十里揚州路一作「郭」，
卷上珠簾總不如。