See how Li Shangyin expresses that he misses you
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Li Shangyin’s most straightforward love poem – consisting of 28 characters in total – can be translated as: I miss you. “Duanju”, by Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty: Distant letters and dreams both seem so far away; only the empty bed remains as company in this cold autumn. Moss on the steps and mangroves; desolate in the rain, filled with sorrow under the moon.
How talented the ancients were! What do we have these days? Just poems like “Ah~Pu” and things of that sort
Fifty strings on the zither, each string and each peg reminding of bygone years
Under the moonlight, before the flowers bloom, I leisurely recall the ancients
Back then, transportation was inconvenient, so we missed each other and couldn’t meet.
Letters from afar and dreams drift afar; only the empty bed faces the bare autumn. Come and learn*!
Thinking of you day and night, with no replies to my letters – a feeling of profound loneliness and sorrow