{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bop/bop060.htm","path":"cfu/bop/bop060.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/bop/bop060.htm","text":"The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876]\n2\u00a0\u00a0Like blades of white grass were her fingers fine;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Her skin like purest ointment hard congealed;\n \u00a0\u00a0Her neck like larv\u00e6 on the tree which shine\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0So long and white. Her opening lips revealed\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Her even teeth, behind their screen concealed,\n \u00a0\u00a0Like melon seeds. Her front cicada-square,\n \u00a0\u00a0Displayed her eyebrows curved upon its field,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Like horns of silkworm moth; and dimples rare,\n With dark and lucid eyes, showed face beyond compare. p. 64\n3\u00a0\u00a0When, on her coming, near the city wall,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0She halted in the cultured fields, each eye\n \u00a0\u00a0Viewed with delight her figure large and tall.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Her team of mettled steeds their bits tossed high,\n \u00a0\u00a0Round which was twined red cloth in rich supply.\n \u00a0\u00a0Then in her carriage she went on in state,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Its pheasant screens oft followed by the cry,\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Early retire from court, ye nobles great;\n The marquis leave unfired, to cherish this fit mate.\"\n4\u00a0\u00a0Where out of Ch\u2018i into our state she passed,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Its banks all green with rush and sedges rank,\n \u00a0\u00a0Northwards the Ho rolled on the waters vast\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Of its majestic stream, while in it sank\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With plashing sound the nets, which dripping, drank,\n \u00a0\u00a0The toiling fishers dropt into the wave,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2019Mong shoals of sturgeon, both the large and lank.\n \u00a0\u00a0Her sister ladies shone in dresses brave,\n And martial looked the officers, who escort gave.","title":"The Book of Poetry: Book V. The Odes of Wei: III. Shih J\u00ean","type":"page"}