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Li Po - Marble stairs grievance
Identifier
016729
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
The use of slippers here may not be right - other translations give variously hose and stockings, which gives the white dew yet another non symbolic meaning
A description of the experience
From Li Po and Tu Fu Poems – translated and with an introduction by Arthur Cooper [Penguin classics]
Marble stairs grievance
On Jade Stairs
still grows the white dew
That has all night
soaked her silk slippers
But she lets down
her crystal blind now
And sees through glaze
the moon of autumn