My body is both white and round.
In water I may sink or swim.
The hand the kneads me may be rough,
But I still shall keep my true-red heart.

(C) Ho Xuan Huong
03/11/2017


Best Poems of Ho Xuan Huong

• Lamenting Widow
• Autumn Landscape
• Day Sleeping Girl
• On Sharing A Husband
• The Fan
• Confession Iii
• Swinging
• Floating Sweet Dumpling
• Snail
• The Temple Of Fragrance
• Day And Night
• Spring-watching Pavilion
• Picking Flowers
• Three-mountain Pass
• The Cake That Drifts In Water
• Water-bailing
• The Jackfruit
• Wasps
• Weaving At Night
• To A Couple Of Students Who Were Teasing Her
• Viewing Cac-co Cavern