Delightful Spring Night Rain

It trails the wind, comes stealing in at night / Bedews all things with thin and soundless threads.

We Part as Friends

When on this ground we once do say farewell, / Alone, far-flung, we’ll tread a thousand miles.

Crystal stream from verdant mount

Translation of a famous sijo from Chosun-era poet Hwang Jinyi

The Ballad of Mulan

The long, grim cloak of war do I cast off / The skirt of girlhood I put on with love.

Laughing Alone (獨笑)

This is but how the world goes all the time / Alone I laugh, and none do understand!

Wind Blows Through the Bamboo Sparse (風來疎竹)

Though wind blows through the bamboo sparse / When it has passed the wood does not the sound retain.

Honking Osprey (關雎)

The honking osprey rests upon / The islands of the River great / The lady of good bearing is / The man of virtue’s perfect mate.

On Gardening (種花)

開落摠愁人 未識種花 In bloom and fade I worry all the same; My heart does but the garden’s joys evade.