MORE TRANSLATIONS FROM THE CHINESE

BY

ARTHUR WALEY

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

EVENING

[a.d. 835]

IN EARLY SPRING ALONE CLIMBING THE T‘IEN-KUNG PAGODA

[a.d. 389]

CH‘U YÜAN

[1] THE GREAT SUMMONS

WANG WEI

[2] PROSE LETTER

LI PO

[3-5] DRINKING ALONE BY MOONLIGHT

[Three Poems]

I

II

III

[Three Poems]

I

II

III

[6] IN THE MOUNTAINS ON A SUMMER DAY

[7] WAKING FROM DRUNKENNESS ON A SPRING DAY

[8] SELF-ABANDONMENT

[9] TO TAN CH‘IU

[10] CLEARING AT DAWN

PO CHU-I

LIFE OF PO CHU-I

[11] AFTER PASSING THE EXAMINATION

[a.d. 800]

[12] ESCORTING CANDIDATES TO THE EXAMINATION HALL

[a.d. 805]

[13] IN EARLY SUMMER LODGING IN A TEMPLE TO ENJOY THE MOONLIGHT

[a.d. 805]

[14] SICK LEAVE

[While Secretary to the Deputy-Assistant-Magistrate of Chou-chih, near Ch‘ang-an, in a.d. 806]

[15] WATCHING THE REAPERS

[a.d. 806]

[16] GOING ALONE TO SPEND A NIGHT AT THE HSIEN-YU TEMPLE

[a.d. 806]

[17] PLANTING BAMBOOS

[a.d. 806]

[18] TO LI CHIEN

[Part of a Poem]

[a.d. 807]

[Part of a Poem]

[a.d. 807]

[19] AT THE END OF SPRING

To Yüan Chēn.[1] [a.d. 810]

[20] THE POEM ON THE WALL

[a.d. 810]

[Yüan Chēn wrote that on his way to exile he had discovered a poem inscribed by Po Chü-i, on the wall of the Lo-k‘ou Inn.]

[a.d. 810]

[Yüan Chēn wrote that on his way to exile he had discovered a poem inscribed by Po Chü-i, on the wall of the Lo-k‘ou Inn.]

[21] CHU CH‘ĒN VILLAGE

[a.d. 811]

[22] FISHING IN THE WEI RIVER

[a.d. 811]

[23] LAZY MAN’S SONG

[a.d. 811]

[24] ILLNESS AND IDLENESS

[Circa a.d. 812]

[25] WINTER NIGHT

[Written during his retirement in 812]

[26] THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS IN THE EASTERN GARDEN

[a.d. 812]

[27] POEMS IN DEPRESSION, AT WEI VILLAGE

[a.d. 812]

[1]

[2]

[a.d. 812]

[1]

[2]

[28] TO HIS BROTHER HSING-CHIEN, WHO WAS SERVING IN TUNG-CH‘UAN

[a.d. 815]

[29] STARTING EARLY FROM THE CH‘U-CH‘ĒNG INN

[a.d. 815]

[30] RAIN

[a.d. 815]

[31] THE BEGINNING OF SUMMER

[a.d. 815]

[32] VISITING THE HSI-LIN TEMPLE

[Written during his exile]

[33] PROSE LETTER TO YÜAN CHĒN

[a.d. 818]

[34] HEARING THE EARLY ORIOLE

[Written in exile]

[35] DREAMING THAT I WENT WITH LU AND YU TO VISIT YÜAN CHĒN

[Written in exile]

[36] THE FIFTEENTH VOLUME

[Having completed the fifteenth volume of his works, the poet sends it to his friends Yüan Chēn and Li Chien, with a jesting poem.]

[Written in 818]

[Having completed the fifteenth volume of his works, the poet sends it to his friends Yüan Chēn and Li Chien, with a jesting poem.]

[Written in 818]

[37] INVITATION TO HSIAO CHÜ-SHIH[1]

[Written when Governor of Chung-Chou]

[38] TO LI CHIEN

[a.d. 818]

[39] THE SPRING RIVER

[a.d. 820]

[40] AFTER COLLECTING THE AUTUMN TAXES

[41] LODGING WITH THE OLD MAN OF THE STREAM

[a.d. 820]

[42] TO HIS BROTHER HSING-CHIEN

[a.d. 820]

[43] THE PINE-TREES IN THE COURTYARD

[a.d. 820]

[44] SLEEPING ON HORSEBACK

[a.d. 822]

[45] PARTING FROM THE WINTER STOVE

[a.d. 822]

[46] GOOD-BYE TO THE PEOPLE OF HANGCHOW

[a.d. 824]

[47] WRITTEN WHEN GOVERNOR OF SOOCHOW

[a.d. 825]

[48] GETTING UP EARLY ON A SPRING MORNING

[Part of a poem written when Governor of Soochow in 825]

[49] LOSING A SLAVE-GIRL

[Date uncertain]

[50] THE GRAND HOUSES AT LO-YANG

[Circa a.d. 829]

[51] THE CRANES

[a.d. 830]

[52] ON HIS BALDNESS

[a.d. 832]

[53] THINKING OF THE PAST

[a.d. 833]

[54] A MAD POEM ADDRESSED TO MY NEPHEWS AND NIECES

[a.d. 835]

[55] OLD AGE

[Addressed to Liu Yü-hsi, who was born in the same year]

[a.d. 835]

[Addressed to Liu Yü-hsi, who was born in the same year]

[a.d. 835]

[56] TO A TALKATIVE GUEST

[a.d. 836]

[57] TO LIU YU-HSI

[a.d. 838]

[58] MY SERVANT WAKES ME

[a.d. 839]

[59] SINCE I LAY ILL

[a.d. 840]

[60] SONG OF PAST FEELINGS [With Preface]

[Circa a.d. 840]

[61] ILLNESS

[Written circa 842, when he was paralyzed]

[62] RESIGNATION

YÜAN CHEN

[63] THE STORY OF TS‘UI YING-YING

[64] THE PITCHER

[a.d. 779-831]

PO HSING-CHIEN

[65] THE STORY OF MISS LI

WANG CHIEN

[66] HEARING THAT HIS FRIEND WAS COMING BACK FROM THE WAR

[67] THE SOUTH

OU-YANG HSIU

[68] AUTUMN

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