Chinese cricket poetry

Posted on December 24, 2006 by Beth

Listen to the Cricket
by Bei Ju-Yi, Tang dynasty
The Singing cricket chirps throughout the long night, tolling in the cloudy autumn with its rain. Intent on disturbing the gloomy sleepless soul, the cricket moves towards the bed chirp by chirp.

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