/lit/ - Literature

>>20868698
>>20871640
Ok, here is my completed attempt at your poem. I had to look up the botanical plant reference lol.

董生唯巧笑,子都信美目。
百万市一言,千金买相逐。
不道参差菜,谁论窈窕淑。
愿言捧绣被,来就越人宿。

Keen smiles quicken the trustful allure of your eyes
Many words sought for one; moments countless
Cherished for a chance encounter.
Speak not of the floating heart of lotus flowers
Who pleads for the beauty of another;
For bestowed in this embroidered brocade
Is the shelter a ferryman once gave.
...
That botanical reference is apparently to Nymphoides Peltatum, also known as Yellow Floating Heart
参差菜:参差的荇xìng菜。参差cēncī,长短不齐。荇菜,亦作莕菜,别名水荷叶,水生可食。《诗经。周南.关雎》“参差荇菜,左右流之。”