Asian Poems

Fish Fossil

With such agility in your movements,
Such buoyancy in your strength,
You leapt in the foam
And swam in the sea.

Unfortunately, a volcano’s eruption
Or perhaps an earthquake
Cost you

Da Yanhe — My Wet Nurse

Da Yanhe, is my wet nurse.
Her name is the name of her village where she was born,
She is a childbride,
Da Yanhe, is my wet nurse.

I am a

The Stranger

The Stranger within my gate,
He may be true or kind,
But he does not talk my talk–
I cannot feel his mind.
I see the face and the eyes

The Young British Soldier

When the ‘arf-made recruity goes out to the East
‘E acts like a babe an’ ‘e drinks like a beast,
An’ ‘e wonders because ‘e is frequent deceased
Ere ‘e’s

The Thorkild’s Song

There’s no wind along these seas,
Out oars for Stavenger!
Forward all for Stavenger!
So we must wake the white-ash breeze,
Let fall for Stavenger!
A long pull for Stavenger!

Oh,

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