| PAGE |
Introduction | 3 |
The Method of Translation | 19 |
Bibliographical Notes | 21 |
Chapter I: |
Battle | 23 |
The Man-Wind and the Woman-Wind | 24 |
Master Tēng-t’u | 26 |
The Orphan | 27 |
The Sick Wife | 29 |
Cock-Crow Song | 30 |
The Golden Palace | 31 |
“Old Poem” | 32 |
Meeting in the Road | 32 |
Fighting South of the Castle | 33 |
The Eastern Gate | 34 |
Old and New | 35 |
South of the Great Sea | 35 |
The Other Side of the Valley | 36 |
Oaths of Friendship | 37 |
Burial Songs | 38 |
Seventeen Old Poems | 39-48 |
The Autumn Wind | 48 |
Li Fu-jēn | 49 |
Song of Snow-white Heads | 50 |
To his Wife | 51 |
Li Ling | 52 |
Lament of Hsi-chün | 53 |
Ch’in Chia | 53 |
Ch’in Chia’s Wife’s Reply | 54 |
Song | 55 |
Chapter II: |
Satire on Paying Calls in August | 57 |
On the Death of his Father | 58 |
The Campaign against Wu | 59 |
The Ruins of Lo-yang | 60 |
The Cock-fight | 61 |
A Vision | 62 |
The Curtain of the Wedding Bed | 63 |
Regret | 63 |
Taoist Song | 64 |
A Gentle Wind | 64 |
Woman | 65 |
Day Dreams | 66 |
The Scholar in the Narrow Street | 66 |
The Desecration of the Han Tombs | 67 |
Bearer’s Song | 68 |
The Valley Wind | 69 |
Chapter III: |
Poems by T’ao Ch’ien | 71-79 |
Chapter IV: |
Inviting Guests | 81 |
Climbing a Mountain | 81 |
Sailing Homeward | 82 |
Five “Tzŭ-yeh” Songs | 83 |
The Little Lady of Ch’ing-hsi | 84 |
Plucking the Rushes | 84 |
Ballad of the Western Island in the North Country | 84 |
Song | 86 |
Song of the Men of Chin-ling | 86 |
The Scholar Recruit | 87 |
The Red Hills | 87 |
Dreaming of a Dead Lady | 88 |
The Liberator | 89 |
Lo-yang | 89 |
Winter Night | 90 |
The Rejected Wife | 90 |
People hide their Love | 91 |
The Ferry | 91 |
The Waters of Lung-t’ou | 92 |
Flowers and Moonlight on the Spring River | 92 |
Tchirek Song | 93 |
Chapter V: |
Business Men | 95 |
Tell me now | 95 |
On Going to a Tavern | 96 |
Stone Fish Lake | 96 |
Civilization | 97 |
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 |