| PAGE |
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 |
Alarm at first entering the Yang-tze Gorges | 150 |
On being removed from Hsün-yang and sent to Chung-chou | 151 |
Planting Flowers on the Eastern Embankment | 152 |
Children | 153 |
Pruning Trees | 154 |
Being visited by a Friend during Illness | 155 |
On the way to Hangchow: Anchored on the River at Night | 155 |
Stopping the Night at Jung-yang | 156 |
The Silver Spoon | 156 |
The Hat given to the Poet by Li Chien | 157 |
The Big Rug | 157 |
After getting Drunk, becoming Sober in the Night | 158 |
Realizing the Futility of Life | 158 |
Rising Late and Playing with A-ts’ui, aged Two | 159 |
On a Box containing his own Works | 160 |
On being Sixty | 161 |
Climbing the Terrace of Kuan-yin and looking at the City | 162 |
Climbing the Ling Ying Terrace and looking North | 162 |
Going to the Mountains with a little Dancing Girl, aged Fifteen | 163 |
Dreaming of Yüan Chēn | 163 |
A Dream of Mountaineering | 164 |
Ease | 165 |
On hearing someone sing a Poem by Yüan Chēn | 165 |
The Philosophers | 166 |
Taoism and Buddhism | 167 |
Last Poem | 168 |