The verses about loving someone but not being able to have them are as follows:
1. "Yan of a Chaste Woman: A Letter to Master Li Sikong in Dongping"
Tang Dynasty? Zhang Ji< /p>
Original text:
You know that I have a husband, so you give me a pair of pearls.
I feel your lingering affection, tied in a red lining.
The high-rise buildings of my concubine’s house are connected to the garden, and my beloved man is holding a halberd in the bright light.
I know that my heart is like the sun and the moon, and my husband's vows are as important as life and death.
Huanjun's pearls shed tears, why not meet again when they are not married.
Translation:
You know that I already have a husband, but you still want to give me a pair of pearls.
I am grateful in my heart for your lingering affection and tying the pearl on my red blouse.
My high-rise building is connected to the royal garden, and my husband is on duty in the palace with a halberd.
Although I know that you are sincere and open-minded, I have vowed to fight with my husband through life and death.
Returning your twin pearls brings tears to my eyes. I regret not meeting you before I got married.
2. "Five Poems on Lisi·Four"
Yuan Zhen of the Tang Dynasty
Original text:
There was a time when the sea was difficult to overcome, except for Wushan. cloud.
Looking back lazily at Huacong, I am half destined to practice Taoism and half destined to be a king.
Translation
If you have been to the sea, you will not care about the water elsewhere; except for Wushan, you will not call the clouds anywhere else clouds.
I walked through the flowers in a hurry, not bothering to look back. The reason for this is partly because of the asceticism of the monks, and partly because of the you I once had.