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Chinese Erotic Poems, one of the new titles in the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series, presents a rich store of verse, drawing on sources from 600 BCE to the present. Editors Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping have gathered poems of love and lust, ecstasy and despair, folk songs which wink broadly and literary works of great subtlety. Today's selection is by Mei Yaochen (1002-1060), translated by the editors.

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At Night I Hear My Neighbor Singing

I cannot fall asleep at midnight,
overhearing my neighbor singing.
I imagine her red lips moving
till dust falls from the beams.
I don't laugh when she misses a beat,
just pull my clothes on to steal her song,
but when I put on clothes, the song ends.
Only the moon in the window still shines.





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