A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems. Anonymous

A Protest in the Sixth Year of Ch’ien Fu 97 On the Birth of his Son 98 The Pedlar of Spells 98 Boating in Autumn 99 The Herd-boy 99 How I sailed on the Lake till I came to the Eastern Stream 100 A Seventeenth-century Chinese Poem 100

PART II

       Table of Contents

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Introduction	105
By Po Chü-i:
An Early Levée	115
Being on Duty all night in the Palace and dreaming of the Hsien-yu Temple	116
Passing T’ien-mēn Street in Ch’ang-an and seeing a distant View of Chung-nan Mountain	116
The Letter	117
Rejoicing at the Arrival of Ch’ēn Hsiung	118
Golden Bells	119
Remembering Golden Bells	120
Illness	120
The Dragon of the Black Pool	121
The Grain-tribute	123
The People of Tao-chou	123
The Old Harp	125
The Harper of Chao	125
The Flower Market	126
The Prisoner	127
The Chancellor’s Gravel-drive	131
The Man who Dreamed of Fairies	132
Magic	134
The Two Red Towers	135
The Charcoal-seller	137
The Politician	138
The Old Man with the Broken Arm	139
Kept waiting in the Boat at Chiu-k’ou Ten Days by an adverse Wind	142
On Board Ship: Reading Yüan Chēn’s Poems	142
Arriving at Hsün-yang	143
Madly Singing in the Mountains	144
Releasing a migrant “Yen” (wild Goose)	145
To a Portrait Painter who desired him to sit	146
Separation	147
Having climbed to the topmost Peak of the Incense-burner Mountain	148
Eating Bamboo-shoots	149
The Red Cockatoo	149
After Lunch	150