To One Unnamed V

There are many curtains in your care-free house, 

Where rapture lasts the whole night long. 

...What are the lives of angels but dreams

If they take no lovers into their rooms?

...Storms are ravishing the nut-horns,

Moon-dew sweetening cinnamon-leaves

I know well enough naught can come of this union,

Yet how it serves to ease my heart!

- Li Shangyin

Picture: "Interior With Woman in Red" by Felix Vallotton (1903).