Raw red beans

south country / raw red beans
spring comes / twig appear start
wish you / many pluck gather
this thing / best our samemindedness

-- Wáng Wéi -- v. L. c. a 白狐 --

-- Wang Wei to Meng Haoran --

相思
红豆生南国
春来发几枝
愿君多采撷
此物最相思

xiāng sī
hóng dòu shēng nán guó
chūn lái fā jī zhī
yuàn jūn duō ciă xié
cĭ wù zuì xiāng sī

each-other thought/state-of-mind // red beans/peas live/life/give-birth/grow/raw/uncooked south country // spring come become/turn/deliver/feel/start small-table/almost branch/twig // wish/vow monarch/gentleman (too)much/many(more)/how!! pick/pluck pick/gather // this(+moment/place) matter/thing best/most (see title above) [jiāngguŏ = berry > fruit with fairly thick fluid]

Source >
http://poemsintranslation.blogspot.nl/search/label/Wang%20Wei