The oldest collection of Chinese poetry, more than three hundred songs, odes and hymns. Tr. Legge (en) and Granet (fr, incomplete).
The flowers of the bignonia,
Are of a deep yellow.
My heart is sad ;
I feel its wound.
The flowers of the bignonia [are gone],
[There are only] its leaves all-green.
If I had known it would be thus with me,
I had better not have been born.
The ewes have large heads ;
The Three stars are [seen] in the fish-trap.
If some men can get enough to eat,
Few can get their fill.
Legge 233
The Book of Odes – Shi Jing II. 8. (233) – Chinese on/off – Français/English
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