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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

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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

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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

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