CHINESE POEMS

PREFACE

CONTENTS

A FEW REMARKS ON THE HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION OF CHINESE POETRY

THE TECHNIQUE OF CHINESE POETRY

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES OF A FEW OF THE MORE EMINENT CHINESE POETS

CHINESE POEMS

Only a Fragrant Spray

The River By Night in Spring

The Beauty of Snow

A Maiden's Reverie

A Song of the Marches

The Cowherd and the Spinning-Maid[5]

The Old Soldier's Return

On the Lake near the Western Mountains

The Happy Farmer

An Old House Unroofed by an Autumn Gale

The Lament of the Ladies of the Siang River[7]

The Waters of the Mei-Pei

The Swallow's Song[17]

Farewell to a Comrade

Beauty's Fatal Snare[23]

A Reverie in a Summer-house

The Flower-Seller[27]

The Red-Flower Pear-Tree

A Song of Princess Tze-Yuh[31]

Distaste for Official Life

The Fragrant Tree

A Song of the Snow

The Old Temple among the Mountains

A Soldier's Farewell to his Wife

The Wanderer's Return

The Pleasures of a Simple Life with Nature

Listening to the Playing on a Lute in a Boat

Reflections on the Past[41]

A Lowly Flower

On returning to a Country Life

The Brevity of Life

Conscripts leaving for the Frontier[43]

Estimating the Value of a Wife

The Lady Lo-Fu

An Autumn Evening in the Garden

Muh-Lan[45]

The Old Fisherman

Midnight in the Garden

Reflections on the Brevity of Life

So-fei gathering Flowers

A Farewell[48]

The Khwun-ming Lake

Reflections

Pride and Humility[55]

Dwellers in the Peach Stream Valley[57]

The Five Sons

The Journey Back

The Gallant Captain and the Innkeeper's Wife

The Lady Chao-Chiün[64]

Night on the Lake

The Fishermen's Song

The Students' Ramble[66]

The Priest of T'ien Mountain

Maidens By the River-side

The Poet-Beggar