| Preface |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction |
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ZHOU DYNASTY
| BOOK OF POETRY |
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Courtship Song |
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That Gentle Maid |
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Wedding Song |
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While Locusts Sang |
| ANONYMOUS |
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Disappointment |
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WESTERN HAN DYNASTY
| LIU CHE |
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Lines on the Autumn Wind |
| ROYAL CONSERVATORY |
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The Dew that on Shallot-leaves Liew |
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"Long-Song Lay" |
| LIU XIJUN |
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Lamentation |
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EASTERN HAN DYNASTY
| QIN JIA |
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A Farewell Poem for His Absent Wife |
| KONG RONG |
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My Son |
| CAO CAO |
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The Indomitable Soul |
| ZHAO YI |
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Poems of Disgust |
| NINETEEN OLD POEMS |
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Far in the Skies in the Cowherd Star |
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Life that's Scarce a Hundred Years |
| LIU ZHEN |
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For His Cousin |
| CAO ZHI |
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Seven-Pace Song |
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Allegory |
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THREE KINGDOMS
| JI KANG |
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Songs of Disillusionment |
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JIN DYNASTY
| TAO QIAN |
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Peach-Blossom Fount (Preface and Poem) |
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NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN DYNASTIES
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SUI DYNASTY
| ANONYMOUS |
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Border-Hauler's Song |
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TANG DYNASTY
| LUO BINWANG |
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To a Cicada from Prison |
| HE ZHIZHANG |
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Homecoming—jotted down on returning home
after long separation |
| SHI ZHAO |
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Snow at Morning |
| ZHANG JIULING |
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The Waterfall |
| LI LONGJI |
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To Confucius—uttered under stress of emotions, as he sacrificed to Confucius while passing through the ancient kingdom of Lu |
| WANG ZHIHUAN |
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On Top of Stork-bird Tower |
| MENG HAORAN |
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Dawn in spring |
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Home to Deer-Gate at Night |
| QI MUQIAN |
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Night at Longxing Monastery |
| CHANG JIAN |
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Hermitage at Broken-Hill Monastery |
| WANG CHANGLING |
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Regret |
| WANG WEI |
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In Bamboo-Alley Grange |
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Green Brook |
| LI BAI |
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Yang Guifei and the Peony-rose |
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Down from the Mountain |
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A Homily on Ideals in Life, Uttered in Springtime
on Rising from a Drunken Slumber |
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Farewell—on seeing Meing Haoran off from Brown Crane Tower
as he took his departure for Guangling |
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Cascade—gazing at the cascade on Lu Shan |
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Night Thoughts |
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The Moon |
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At a Banquet Held in Xie Tiao's Tower in Xuanzhou, to bid farewell
to Archivist Shu Yun |
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Crow's Night Song |
| GAO SHI |
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Parting Song—parting from the eldest youth of the Dong family |
| DU FU |
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Border Campaigning |
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Gazing at the Great Mount |
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Visiting an Old Friend—to the recluse Octavus Wei,
the eighth member of the Wei family |
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Moonlight Night |
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The Winsome Bride |
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Quiet Moment |
| QIAN QI |
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Homing Wild Geese |
| MENG JIA |
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Song for the Wanderer |
| WANG JIAN |
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To the Tune of "Palace Laughter" |
| HAN YU |
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Late Spring |
| ZHANG JI |
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The Chaste Wife's Reply |
| BAI JUYI |
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Outlandish Music |
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The Sound of Weeping |
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Looking at Fishes |
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Too Lazy |
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Remembering South River Land |
| LI SHEN |
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"Old Style" |
| JIA DAO |
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The Absent Hermit |
| LI HE |
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The Starry Heavens |
| DU MU |
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On the City Esplansade—whence one sees the
Five Tombs of Han Emperors |
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Golden Vale Garden |
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A Sad Farewell |
| LI SHANYIN |
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Fallen Blossoms |
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Jewelled Zither |
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Lady of the Moon |
| LI SHE |
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Talking in the Hills |
| ZIANG SI |
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Mooring at Night by a Riverside Village |
| WEN TINGYUN |
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To the Tune of "Dreaming of South River Land" |
| LUO YIN |
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Candid Song |
| WEI TINGYUN |
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To the Tune of "Maid's Diadem" |
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South River Land—to the tune of "Fair Alien" |
| CHEN YULAN |
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To Her Husband at the North Frontier |
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FIVE DYNASTY
| GU XIONG |
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Heart's Utterance |
| ZHANG BI |
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For Someone |
| LI YU |
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To the Tune of "Light Flowing Music" |
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To the Tune of "Fair Lady Yu" |
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Up the Western Stairs—to the Tune of "Joy at Meeting" |
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NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY
| YAN SHU |
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Mutability |
| MEI YAOCHEN |
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The Tile-maker |
| OUYANG XIU |
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The Huamei's Song |
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Sweet is the Western Lake—to the Tune of "Mulberry-pickers" |
| DU LEI |
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Makeshift Entertainment |
| SU SHI |
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The Western Lake When Rain is Falling |
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Rememberance in Mid-Autumn—to the Tune of "Barcarole Prelude" |
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Written on a Painting of Flowers Done by Intendant Wang of Yanling |
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Admiring Peony-blowwsoms at the Monastery of Good Omens |
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Winter |
| HUANG TINGJIAN |
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To the Tune of "Light Flowing Music: |
| ZHAO JI |
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On Seeing an Almond-tree in Blossom |
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SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY
| ZHU DUNRU |
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Angler's Song—to the Tune of "with Much Ado" |
| LI QINGZHAO |
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A Dream |
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Madrigal:"As in a Dream" |
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Sorrow |
| YE YONG |
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Fisherman's Ditty |
| LU YAOU |
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A Portent |
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Reproach—on the indifference of the Southern Song Court
to the plight of their fellow-countrymen in the North, still
under the domination of the Juchen Tartars |
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Testament to His Son |
| FAN CHENGDA |
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Country Life |
| YANG WANLI |
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Sweltering in July |
| XIN QIJI |
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A Truce to Sorrow |
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Enlightenment |
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In Exile |
| LEI ZHEN |
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Evening in a Village |
| WEN TIANZIANG |
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Song of Honour—written in prison in 1281,
with a preface in prose |
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YUAN DYNASTY
| "PLUM-BLOSSOM SISTER", A BUDDHIST NUN |
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A song of Plum-Blossom |
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MING DYNASTY
| GAO QI |
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War Tombs |
| LI HONG |
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On Wine |
| SHEN MINGCHEN |
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Paean |
| QIAN BINGDENG |
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On Wine, After Yuanmin |
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QING DYNASTY
| NALAN XINGDE |
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To the Tune of "Love-longing" |
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To His Lost Bride—to the Tune of "Springtime in Provincial Garden" |
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Written While Staying at Double-Grove Monastery—to the Tune of
"Remembering South River Land" |
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To the Tune of "Blossoms Loved by Butterflies" |
| YUAN MEI |
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Self-banter on Arboriculture |
| ZHAO YI |
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On Poems |
| LI DIAOYUAN |
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Seven-mile Shallows |
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| Notes |
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| The Translator |
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| The Editor |
143 |
| Appendix: Chinese Texts |
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