Contents

Introduction	9
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 Chû-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

Po Chü-i (continued)—
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 Serving 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 Chû-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

Po Chü-i (continued)—
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	88
Old Age	89
To a Talkative Guest	90
To Liu Yü-Hsi	91
My Servant Wakes Me	92
Since I Lay Ill	93
Song of Past Feelings	94
Illness	98
Resignation	99
Yüan Chēn:—
The Story of Ts‘ui Ying-Ying	103
The Pitcher	118
Po Hsing-Chien:—
The Story of Miss Li	123
Wang Chien:—
Hearing that His Friend was Coming Back from the War	147
The South	147
Ou-Yang Hsiu:—
Autumn	151
Appendix	154

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