PART I
Arthur Waley translation
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Introduction3
The Method of Translation19
Bibliographical Notes21
Chapter I:
Battle23
The Man-Wind and the Woman-Wind24
Master Tēng-t’u26
The Orphan27
The Sick Wife29
Cock-Crow Song30
The Golden Palace31
“Old Poem”32
Meeting in the Road32
Fighting South of the Castle33
The Eastern Gate34
Old and New35
South of the Great Sea35
The Other Side of the Valley36
Oaths of Friendship37
Burial Songs38
Seventeen Old Poems39-48
The Autumn Wind48
Li Fu-jēn49
Song of Snow-white Heads50
To his Wife51
Li Ling52
Lament of Hsi-chün53
Ch’in Chia53
Ch’in Chia’s Wife’s Reply54
Song55
Chapter II:
Satire on Paying Calls in August57
On the Death of his Father58
The Campaign against Wu59
The Ruins of Lo-yang60
The Cock-fight61
A Vision62
The Curtain of the Wedding Bed63
Regret63
Taoist Song64
A Gentle Wind64
Woman65
Day Dreams66
The Scholar in the Narrow Street66
The Desecration of the Han Tombs67
Bearer’s Song68
The Valley Wind69
Chapter III:
Poems by T’ao Ch’ien71-79
Chapter IV:
Inviting Guests81
Climbing a Mountain81
Sailing Homeward82
Five “Tzŭ-yeh” Songs83
The Little Lady of Ch’ing-hsi84
Plucking the Rushes84
Ballad of the Western Island in the North Country84
Song86
Song of the Men of Chin-ling86
The Scholar Recruit87
The Red Hills87
Dreaming of a Dead Lady88
The Liberator89
Lo-yang89
Winter Night90
The Rejected Wife90
People hide their Love91
The Ferry91
The Waters of Lung-t’ou92
Flowers and Moonlight on the Spring River92
Tchirek Song93
Chapter V:
Business Men95
Tell me now95
On Going to a Tavern96
Stone Fish Lake96
Civilization97
A Protest in the Sixth Year of Ch’ien Fu97
On the Birth of his Son98
The Pedlar of Spells98
Boating in Autumn99
The Herd-boy99
How I sailed on the Lake till I came to the Eastern Stream100
A Seventeenth-century Chinese Poem100