帕布莉卡古别离
孟郊
欲别牵郎衣，
“郎今到何处？
不恨归来迟，
莫向临邛去！”
Leave Me Not
Meng Jiao
I hold your robe lest you should go.
“Where are you going, dear, today?
Your late return brings me less woe
Than your heart being stolen away.”
This quatrain reveals a wife’s fear of being deserted,
