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A Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry

Translated by John Turner
Compiled and edited by John J. Deeney

1990
xxxiv + 166 pages
ISBN 962-7255-04-1

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Table of Contents

Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xxi
Introduction xxiii
Zhou Dynasty
Book of Poetry
Courtship Song 1
That Gentle Maid 2
Wedding Song 3
While Locusts Sang 4
Anonymous
Disappointment 5
Western Han Dynasty
Liu Che
Lines on the Autumn Wind 6
Royal Conservatory
The Dew that on Shallot-leaves Lies 7
“Long-Song Lay” 8
Liu Xijun
Lamentation 9
Eastern Han Dynasty
Qin Jia
A Farewell Poem for His Absent Wife 10
Kong Rong
My Son 11
Cao Cao
The Indomitable Soul 12
Zhao Yi
Poems of Disgust 13
Nineteen Old Poems
Far in the Skies in the Cowherd Star 14
Life that’s Scarce a Hundred Years 15
Liu Zhen
For His Cousin 16
Cao Zhi
Seven-Pace Song 17
Allegory 18
Three Kingdoms
Ji Kang
Songs of Disillusionment 19
Jin Dynasty
Tao Qian
Peach-Blossom Fount (Preface and Poem) 21
Northern and Southern Dynasties
Anonymous
Border Songs 24
Sui Dynasty
Anonymous
Barge-Hauler’s Song 25
Tang Dynasty
Luo Binwang
To a Cicada from Prison 26
He Zhizhang
Homecoming—jotted down on returning home after long separation 27
Shi Zhao
Snow at Morning 28
Zhang Jiuling
The Waterfall 29
Li Longji
To Confucius—uttered under stress of emotion, as he sacrificed to Confucius while passing through the ancient kingdom of Lu 30
Wang Zhihuan
On Top of Stork-bird Tower 31
Meng Haoran
Dawn in Spring 32
Home to Deer-Gate at Night 33
Qi Muqian
Night at Longxing Monastery 34
Chang Jian
Hermitage at Broken-Hill Monastery 35
Wang Changling
Regret 36
Wang Wei
In Bamboo-Alley Grange 37
Green Brook 38
Li Bai
Yang Guifei and the Peony-rose 39
Down from the Mountain 41
A Homily on Ideals in Life, Uttered in Springtime on Rising from a Drunken Slumber 42
Farewell—on seeing Meng Haoran off from Brown Crane Tower as he took his departure for Guangling 43
Cascade—gazing at the cascade on Lu Shan 44
Night Thoughts 45
The Moon 46
At a Banquet Held in Xie Tiao’s Tower in Xuanzhou, to bid farewell to Archivist Shu Yun 47
Crow’s Night Song 48
Gao Shi
Parting Song—parting from the eldest youth of the Dong family 49
Du Fu
Border Campaigning 50
Gazing at the Great Mount 51
Visiting an Old Friend—to the recluse Octavus Wei, the eighth member of the Wei family 52
Moonlight Night 53
The Winsome Bride 55
Quiet Moment 56
Qian Qi
Homing Wild Geese 57
Meng Jia
Song for the Wanderer 58
Wang Jian
To the Tune of “Palace Laughter” 59
Han Yu
Late Spring 60
Zhang Ji
The Chaste Wife’s Reply 61
Bai Juyi
Outlandish Music 62
The Sound of Weeping 63
Looking at Fishes 64
Too Lazy 65
Remembering South River Land 66
Li Shen
“Old Style” 67
Jia Dao
The Absent Hermit 68
Li He
The Starry Heavens 69
Du Mu
On the City Esplansade—whence one sees the Five Tombs of Han Emperors 70
Golden Vale Garden 71
A Sad Farewell 72
Li Shangyin
Fallen Blossoms 73
Jewelled Zither 74
Lady of the Moon 75
Li She
Talking in the Hills 76
Xiang Si
Mooring at Night by a Riverside Village 77
Wen Tingyun
To the Tune of “Dreaming of South River Land” 78
Luo Yin
Candid Song 79
Wei Zhuang
To the Tune of “Maid’s Diadem” 80
South River Land—to the tune of “Fair Alien Divine” 81
Chen Yulan
To Her Husband at the North Frontier 82
Five Dynasties
Gu Xiong
Heart’s Utterance 83
Zhang Bi
For Someone 84
Li Yu
To the Tune of “Light Flowing Music” 85
To the Tune of “Fair Lady Yu” 86
Up the Western Stairs—to the Tune of “Joy at Meeting” 87
Northern Song Dynasty
Yan Shu
Mutability 88
Mei Yaochen
The Tile-maker 89
Ouyang Xiu
The Huamei’s Song 90
Sweet is the Western Lake—to the Tune of “Mulberry-pickers” 91
Du Lei
Makeshift Entertainment 92
Su Shi
The Western Lake When Rain is Falling 93
Rememberance in Mid-Autumn—to the Tune of “Barcarole Prelude” 94
Written on a Painting of Flowers Done by Intendant Wang of Yanling 95
Admiring Peony-blossoms at the Monastery of Good Omens 96
Winter 97
Huang Tingjian
To the Tune of “Light Flowing Music” 98
Zhao Ji
On Seeing an Almond-tree in Blossom 99
Southern Song Dynasty
Zhu Dunru
Angler’s Song—to the Tune of “With Much Ado” 101
Li Qingzhao
A Dream 102
Madrigal: “As in a Dream” 103
Sorrow 104
Ye Yong
Fisherman’s Ditty 106
Lu You
A Portent 107
Reproach—on the indifference of the Southern Song Court to the plight of their fellow-countrymen in the North, still under the domination of the Juchen Tartars 108
Testament to His Son 109
Fan Chengda
Country Life 110
Yang Wanli
Sweltering in July 111
Xin Qiji
A Truce to Sorrow 112
Enlightenment 113
In Exile 114
Lei Zhen
Evening in a Village 115
Wen Tianxiang
Song of Honour—written in prison in 1281, with a preface in prose 116
Yuan Dynasty
“Plum-Blossom Sister”, A Buddhist Nun
A Song of Plum-Blossom 120
Ming Dynasty
Gao Qi
War Tombs 121
Li Hong
On Wine 122
Shen Mingchen
Paean 123
Qian Bingdeng
On Wine, After Yuanming 124
Qing Dynasty
Nalan Xingde
To the Tune of “Love-longing” 125
To His Lost Bride—to the Tune of “Springtime in Provincial Garden” 126
Written While Staying at Double-Grove Monastery—to the Tune of “Remembering South River Land” 128
To the Tune of “Blossoms Loved by Butterflies” 129
Yuan Mei
Self-banter on Arboriculture 130
Zhao Yi
On Poems 131
Li Diaoyuan
Seven-mile Shallows 132
Notes 133
The Translator 141
The Editor 143
Appendix: Chinese Texts 145