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_Translations by Arthur Waley_
I A HUNDRED AND SEVENTY CHINESE POEMS
II MORE TRANSLATIONS FROM THE CHINESE
MORE TRANSLATIONS
FROM THE CHINESE
BY
ARTHUR WALEY
NEW YORK
ALFRED · A · KNOPF
MCMXIX
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ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.
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CONTENTS
PAGE
INTRODUCTION 5
CH‘Ü YÜAN:--
The Great Summons 13
WANG WEI:--
Prose Letter 23
LI PO:--
Drinking Alone by Moonlight 27
In the Mountains on a Summer Day 29
Waking from Drunkenness on a Spring Day 30
Self-Abandonment 31
To Tan Ch‘iu 32
Clearing at Dawn 33
PO CHÜ-I:--
Life of Po Chü-i 35
After Passing the Examination 37
Escorting Candidates to the Examination Hall 38
In Early Summer Lodging in a Temple to Enjoy
the Moonlight 39
Sick Leave 40
Watching the Reapers 41
Going Alone to Spend a Night at the Hsien-Yu
Temple 42
Planting Bamboos 43
To Li Chien 44
At the End of Spring 45
The Poem on the Wall 46
Chu Ch‘ēn Village 47
Fishing in the Wei River 50
Lazy Man’s Song 51
Illness and Idleness 52
Winter Night 53
The Chrysanthemums in the Eastern Garden 54
Poems in Depression, at Wei Village 55
To His Brother Hsing-Chien, Who was in Tung-Ch‘uan 56
Starting Early from the Ch‘u-Ch‘ēng Inn 57
Rain 58
The Beginning of Summer 59
Visiting the Hsi-Lin Temple 60
Prose Letter to Yüan Chēn 61
Hearing the Early Oriole 65
Dreaming that I Went with Lu and Yu to Visit
Yüan Chēn 66
The Fifteenth Volume 67
Invitation to Hsiao Chü-Shih 68
To Li Chien 69
The Spring River 70
After Collecting the Autumn Taxes 71
Lodging with the Old Man of the Stream 72
To His Brother Hsing-Chien 73
The Pine-Trees in the Courtyard 74
Sleeping on Horseback 76
Parting from the Winter Stove 77
Good-Bye to the People of Hangchow 78
Written when Governor of Soochow 79
Getting Up Early on a Spring Morning 80
Losing a Slave-Girl 81
The Grand Houses at Lo-Yang 82
The Cranes 83
On His Baldness 84
Thinking of the Past 85
A Mad Poem Addressed to My Nephews and Nieces 87
Old Age 88
To a Talkative Guest 89
To Liu Yü-Hsi 90
My Servant Wakes Me 91
Since I Lay Ill 92
Song of Past Feelings 93
Illness 96
Resignation 97
YÜAN CHĒN:--
The Story of Ts‘ui Ying-Ying 101
The Pitcher 114
PO HSING-CHIEN:--
The Story of Miss Li 117
WANG CHIEN:--
Hearing that His Friend was Coming Back from
the War 137
The South 138
OU-YANG HSIU:--
Autumn 141