A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems

Contents

CHAPTER I:
Battle
The Man-Wind and the Woman-Wind
Master Teng-t’u
The Orphan
The Sick Wife
Cock-Crow Song
The Golden Palace
“Old Poem”
Meeting in the Road
Fighting South of the Castle
The Eastern Gate
Old and New
South of the Great Sea
The Other Side of the Valley
Oaths of Friendship
Burial Songs
Seventeen Old Poems
The Autumn Wind
Li Fu-jen
[viii]Song of Snow-white Heads
To his Wife
Li Ling
Lament of Hsi-chün
Ch’in Chia
Ch’in Chia’s Wife’s Reply
Song

CHAPTER II:
Satire on Paying Calls in August
On the Death of his Father
The Campaign against Wu
The Ruins of Lo-yang
The Cock-fight
A Vision
The Curtain of the Wedding Bed
Regret
Taoist Song
A Gentle Wind
Woman
Day Dreams
The Scholar in the Narrow Street
The Desecration of the Han Tombs
Bearer’s Song
The Valley Wind

CHAPTER III:
Poems by T’ao Ch’ien

CHAPTER IV:
Inviting Guests
Climbing a Mountain
Sailing Homeward
[ix]Five “Tzu-yeh” Songs
The Little Lady of Ch’ing-hsi
Plucking the Rushes
Ballad of the Western Island in the North Country
Song
Song of the Men of Chin-ling
The Scholar Recruit
The Red Hills
Dreaming of a Dead Lady
The Liberator
Lo-yang
Winter Night
The Rejected Wife
People hide their Love
The Ferry
The Waters of Lung-t’ou
Flowers and Moonlight on the Spring River
Tchirek Song

CHAPTER V:
Business Men
Tell me now
On Going to a Tavern
Stone Fish Lake
Civilization
A Protest in the Sixth Year of Ch’ien Fu
On the Birth of his Son
The Pedlar of Spells
Boating in Autumn
The Herd-boy
How I sailed on the Lake till I came to the Eastern Stream
A Seventeenth-century Chinese Poem