1. My clothes grow looser but I do not regret it; for her, I have let myself become haggard. - Liu Yong, "Feng Qi Wu"
2. Life and death, together and apart, we have made a promise. Holding your hand, I will grow old with you. - Anonymous, "Book of Songs, Bei Feng, Ji Gu"
3. If love between two hearts is meant to last, why must it depend on being together day and night? - Qin Guan, "Magpie Bridge Immortal"
4. When will lovers meet? This moment, this night, is full of sorrow. - Li Bai, "Three-Five-Seven Words"
5. There is a beauty; once seen, never forgotten. One day apart, I think of her as if maddened. - Anonymous, "Phoenix Seeks a Phoenix, Qin Song"
6. This time I leave you, it is the wind, it is the rain, it is the night; you smile, I wave my hand, and a lonely road stretches out in both directions. - Zheng Chouyu, "Farewell"
7. Enter the door of my longing, know the pain of my yearning; long longing endures long remembrance, short longing has no end. - Li Bai, "Three-Five-Seven Words"
8. Having seen the vast ocean, other waters seem insignificant; apart from Mount Wu, no other cloud will suffice. - Yuan Zhen, "Parting Thoughts, No. 4"
9. If you raise the dust on the road, I am the muddy water, floating and sinking with separate forces, when will we meet and harmonize? - Cao Zhi, "Bright Moon on the High Tower"
10. After our sorrowful parting, we feel the same pain; nothing surpasses the unbearable longing under the clear bright moon. - Nalan Xingde, "Yu Meiren"
11. I return your bright pearls with tears streaming, lamenting that we did not meet before you married. - Zhang Ji, "Song of a Chaste Woman"
12. How could I get you to meet me at my most beautiful moment? For this, I have prayed before Buddha for five hundred years, asking Him to allow us a worldly fate. - Xi Murong, "A Flowering Tree"
13. Alas, I am but a lone shadow tethered to this world; how can we be born together yet die apart? - Chen Hengke, "Inscription on Chunqi's Portrait"
14. Beneath the tree of longing, I speak of yearning, thinking of my beloved, yet he knows not. - Liang Qichao, "Taiwan Bamboo Branch Song"
15. Since you left, my mirror no longer reflects rightly. Thinking of you is like the flowing water; when will it end? - Xu Gan, "Yearning in the Room"
16. Meeting is sometimes worse than not meeting; love often seems less tender than indifference. - Sima Guang, "Moon over the West River"
17. Fallen petals are not heartless; they turn into spring soil, nurturing the flowers. - Gong Zizhen, "Miscellaneous Poems of the Year of Jihai"
18. Heaven never grows old, love cannot perish. The heart is like a double-threaded net, tied with countless knots inside. - Zhang Xian, "Eternal Years"
19. Such stars are not last night's; for whom do they stand in the wind and dew at midnight? - Huang Jingren, "Two Poems of Wistful Thoughts, No.1"
20. Straightforward longing is of no benefit; yet why not let melancholia be a form of pure passion? - Li Shangyin, "Untitled, No. 3"
21. Deeply aware, body remains while love endures, gazing at the riverbank listening to the river's sound. - Li Shangyin, "Late Autumn Solo Tour to Qujiang"
22. When a person is present, love fades; now genuinely, there is little affection left. - Nalan Xingde, "Breaking the Han Xi Sha"
23. This love could have waited to become a memory; yet at that time, I was already lost in bewilderment.-Li Shangyin, "Brocade Zither": How much longing is there in the love of a single night? The ends of the earth are not forever. -Zhang Zhongsu, "Swallow Tower": I ask the world, what is love, that it makes life and death promise each other? -Yuan Haowen, "Moyuery, Two Pieces, the First": Without colorful phoenix wings to fly in pairs, the hearts communicate through a single spiritual connection. -Li Shangyin, "Untitled": The beast's furnace sinks in water smoke, the emerald pond has fallen flower petals, row by row inscribed into the tale of longing. -Zhang Kejiu, "Sai Hong Qiu": In my life, I did not know how to long; having just learned, longing harmed me. -Xu Zaisi, "Zheguiling": An inch of longing leads to millions of threads, nowhere on earth can it be arranged. -Li Guan, "Butterfly Loves Flowers": Ten years of life and death are vast and obscure, without thinking of them, it's hard to forget; a lonely grave a thousand miles away, nowhere to speak of sorrow. -Su Shi, "Riverside Town": What night is tonight, to see this good person. -Anonymous, "Book of Songs, Tang Feng, Choumiu": Heaven and earth may end at times, but such hatred goes on endlessly. -Bai Juyi, "Song of Everlasting Regret": In heaven, I wish to be birds flying side by side; on earth, I wish to be interlaced branches. -Bai Juyi, "Song of Everlasting Regret": Tear-stained letters sealed in brocade, in life only love cannot die. -Wen Tingshi, "Butterfly Loves Flowers": One is a celestial blossom of Langyuan, the other is flawless jade. If there were no fate, yet in this life we meet; if there were fate, why is the heart's matter ultimately empty words? -Cao Xueqin, "Wang Ningmei": The spring silkworms only end their silk when they die, the candle's tears dry only when it becomes ash. -Li Shangyin, "Untitled": In another life, I hope not to be a lovesick fool, there is no place in the world for longing. -Kuang Zhouyi, "Reduced Words Huanxi Sha": Before the wine cup, intending to speak of the return date, before words, spring's face choked with sorrow. -Ouyang Xiu, "Jade Tower Spring": Guan-guan cry the ospreys, on the islets in the river. Graceful virtuous lady, a gentleman's good match. -Anonymous, "Book of Songs, Zhou Nan, Guan Ju": Life itself has lovesick fools, this regret has nothing to do with wind and moon. -Ouyang Xiu, "Jade Tower Spring": Over the years to come, it should be good times and scenery in vain. Even if there are a thousand kinds of charm, to whom can I tell? -Liu Yong, "Rain Lament Bell": Only wish your heart is like my heart, surely it will not betray mutual longing. -Li Zhiyi, "Bu Suan Zi": Fallen flowers, I stand alone, in light rain swallows fly in pairs. -Yan Jidao, "River Immortal, Two Pieces, the Second": Pity the bones by the Unstable River, still the person in spring dreams. -Chen Tao, "Longxi Journey": Even if a thousand gold could buy Xiangru's poems, to whom can this quiet sentiment be told? -Xin Qiji, "Moyuery": Wutong tree, midwatch rain, not to mention the pain of parting. Leaf by leaf, sound by sound, drips on the empty steps until dawn. -Wen Tingyun, "Longer Gongs, Three Pieces, the Third": Marry and grow old together, love and affection without doubts.-Su Wu 'Tied Hair to Become Husband and Wife'
