Poetry

Chinese Poems

Anonymous

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Table of contents

1. Front matter2. PREFACE3. A FEW REMARKS ON THE HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION OF CHINESE POETRY4. THE TECHNIQUE OF CHINESE POETRY5. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES OF A FEW OF THE MORE EMINENT CHINESE POETS6. Only a Fragrant Spray7. The River By Night in Spring8. The Beauty of Snow9. A Maiden's Reverie10. A Song of the Marches11. The Cowherd and the Spinning-Maid[5]12. The Old Soldier's Return13. On the Lake near the Western Mountains14. The Happy Farmer15. An Old House Unroofed by an Autumn Gale16. The Lament of the Ladies of the Siang River[7]17. The Waters of the Mei-Pei18. The Swallow's Song[17]19. Farewell to a Comrade20. Beauty's Fatal Snare[23]21. A Reverie in a Summer-house22. The Flower-Seller[27]23. The Red-Flower Pear-Tree24. A Song of Princess Tze-Yuh[31]25. Distaste for Official Life26. The Fragrant Tree27. A Song of the Snow28. The Old Temple among the Mountains29. A Soldier's Farewell to his Wife30. The Wanderer's Return31. The Pleasures of a Simple Life with Nature32. Listening to the Playing on a Lute in a Boat33. Reflections on the Past[41]34. A Lowly Flower35. On returning to a Country Life36. The Brevity of Life37. Conscripts leaving for the Frontier[43]38. Estimating the Value of a Wife39. The Lady Lo-Fu40. An Autumn Evening in the Garden41. Muh-Lan[45]42. The Old Fisherman43. Midnight in the Garden44. Reflections on the Brevity of Life45. So-fei gathering Flowers46. A Farewell[48]47. The Khwun-ming Lake48. Reflections49. Pride and Humility[55]50. Dwellers in the Peach Stream Valley[57]51. The Five Sons52. The Journey Back53. The Gallant Captain and the Innkeeper's Wife54. The Lady Chao-Chiün[64]55. Night on the Lake56. The Fishermen's Song57. The Students' Ramble[66]58. The Priest of T'ien Mountain59. Maidens By the River-side60. The Poet-Beggar
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