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Listening to Yinshi Play His Instrument
Poem to Commander Zhang at the Meeting of the Bian and Si Rivers
Sending Old Poems to Yuan Zhen
Assignment Under the Title “Departure at Ancient Grass Field”
Seeing Yuan Zhen's Poem on the Wall at Blue Bridge Inn
Madly Singing in the Mountains
After Getting Drunk, Becoming Sober in the Night
Poem to Relatives and Friends in the Capital After Looking at Mountains with Monk Hao Chu
Arriving at a Fisherman's House at Night
Looking for the Hermit and Not Finding Him
When Told Bai Juyi Was Demoted and Sent to Jiangzhou
from
Missing Her After Separation
LIU CAICHUN
(
LATE EIGHTH-EARLY NINTH CENTURIES
)
from
Thirteen South Garden Poems
Under the City Wall at Pingcheng
Song of an Old Man's Jade Rush
An Arrowhead from the Ancient Battlefield of Changping
HAN SHAN
(
LATE EIGHTH-EARLY NINTH CENTURIES
)
5. “My heart is the autumn moon”
72. “Pigs eat dead men's flesh”
87. “Greedy men love to store wealth”
92. “Heaven is endlessly high”
100. “The life and death metaphor”
125. “New rice not yet ripe in the field”
128. “An elegant, poised, and handsome young man”
131. “During thirty years since my birth”
140. “When Mr. Deng was in his youth”
141. “Who was this young man?”
146. “My way passed ancient tombs”
158. “There's a tree that existed before the woods”
165. “In idleness I go to visit a prominent monk”
194. “A crowd of stars lines up bright in the deep night”
204. “I gaze on myself in the stream's emerald flow”
210. “Talking about food won't fill your stomach”
218. “When people meet Han Shan”
225. “The ocean stretches endlessly”
237. “This life is lost in dust”
262. “In this world people live then die”
265. “The hermit escapes the human world”
307. “Keep Han Shan's poems in your home”
DU QIUNIANG
(
EARLY NINTH CENTURY
)
Written While Moored on the Qinhuai River
Two Poems Improvised at Qi An County
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To the Tune of “The Water Clock Sings at Night”
To the Tune of “Dreaming of the South Side
of the River”
To the Tune of “Beautiful Barbarian”
Poem Sent as a Letter to the North on a Rainy Night
To the Tune of “Silk-Washing Brook”
To the Tune of “The River City”
To the Tune of “Missing the Emperor's Hometown”
To the Tune of “Daoist Priestess”
from
The Twenty-four Styles of Poetry The Placid Style
The Bighearted and Expansive Style The Flowing Style
To Zian: Missing You at Jianling
Sent in an Orchid Fragrance Letter
Looking at the Zhurong Peak in a Boat at Twilight
To the Tune of “Silk-Washing Brook”
To the Tune of “Silk-Washing Brook”
On the Fall of the Kingdom, to the Tune of “Mulberry-Picking Song”
To the Tune of “A Bushel of Pearls”
To the Tune of “Bodhisattva Barbarian”
To the Tune of “Clear and Even Music”
To the Tune of “Crows Cry at Night”
To the Tune of “Crows Cry at Night”
ANONYMOUS FEMALE POET
(
UNCERTAIN DATES
)
To the Tune of “As in a Dream”
To the Tune of “Longing for Qin e”
To the Tune of “Phoenix Perched on the Parasol Tree”
To the Tune of “Rain Hits a Bell”
To the Tune of “New Chrysanthemum Flowers”
To the Tune of “Poluomen Song”
To the Tune of “Imperial Avenue Procession”
On the Death of a Newborn Child
Reply to Caishu's “Ancient Temple by a River”
To the Tune of “Spring in the Tower of Jade”
The Lamp-wick's Ashes, Blossoms Droop,
the Moon Like Frost
To the Tune of “Spring in the Tower of Jade”
Painting Eyebrows, to the Tune of “Pouring Out Deep
Emotions”
Walking Back in Moonlight from Bohdi Trees to the
Guanghua Temple
To the Tune of “Butterflies Adore Flowers”
To the Tune of “Mulberry-Picking Song”
Late Spring, a Poem Improvised at Banshan
Written on the North Tower Wall After Snow
Written While Living at Dinghui Temple in Huangzhou,
to the Tune of “Divination Song”
Written in Response to Ziyou's Poem About Days in Mianchi
Brushed on the Wall of Xilin Temple
from
Rain on the Festival of Cold Food
Because of a Typhoon I Stayed at Gold Mountain for Two Days
To the Tune of “Prelude to the Water Song”
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To the Tune of “Butterflies Adore Flowers”
Recalling the Past at the Red Cliffs, to the Tune of “Charms of Niannu”
Returning to Lingao at Night, to the Tune of “Immortal by the River”
To the Tune of “Magpie Bridge Immortal”
To the Tune of “Bodhisattva Barbarian”
To the Tune of “Bodhisattva Barbarian”
To the Tune of “Attached to Her Skirt”
NIE SHENQIONG
(
UNCERTAIN DATES
)
To the Tune of “Partridge Sky”
ANONYMOUS
(“the girl who took the gold cup”)
(early twelfth century)
To the Tune of “Partridge Sky”
To the Tune of “Rambling Young Man”
To the Tune of “Butterflies Adore Flowers”
Willows, to the Tune of “King of Lanling”
To the Tune of “Mountain Hawthorn”
To the Tune of “Mountain Hawthorn”
To the Tune of “Washing Creek Sands”
Spring Complaint, to the Tune of “Magnolia Blossoms”
from
Fisherman, to the Tune of “A Happy Event Draws Near”