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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHINESE FAN PAINTING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late afternoon, the cherries bloom
Subject(s): China; Fans; Paintings And Painters


A DREAM OF MOUNTAINEERING, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: At night, in my dream, I stoutly climbed a mountain
Last Line: Between the two, I get as much as I lose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Dreams; Mountain Climbing; Sleep; Nightmares


A FAREWELL SONG OF WHITE CLOUDS, by LI PO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The white clouds float over the mountains of chu
Last Line: Go swiftly home, o my friend!
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China; Clouds


A GENTLE WIND, by FU HSUAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A gentle wind fans the calm night
Last Line: To me they seem no more than weeds or chaff.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hsiu-i; Fu Xuan
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Wind


A PROTEST IN THE SIXTH YEAR OF CH'IEN FU (A.D. 879), by TS'AO SUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hills and rivers of the lowland country
Last Line: Is made out of ten thousand corpses.
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Freedom; Protest, Social; Liberty


A VERY EARLY MORNING EXERCISE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chan yuen is on the threshold of a remarkable career
Subject(s): Introspection; Men; Nanking, China


A VISIT TO YUAN-CHIU IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LI PO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth to sylvan retreats I went, a vagabond
Last Line: It was lucid day-break when I spoke of going.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Wandering & Wanderers; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


ABOARD A BOAT ON A MOONLIT NIGHT, by TAI FU-KU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Moonlight fills the boat and floods an empty sky
Last Line: Dew drips from paulownias on broken arch bridge
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ABOVE THE RIVER, HEAVY ON THE HEART, by SU SHIH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the river, heavy on the heart, thousandfold hills
Last Line: My hill friends will soon be sending poems to call me home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Variant Title(s): Above The River, Heavy On The Heart (1088)
Subject(s): Heaven; Mountains; Paintings And Painters; Yangzi River, China; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ACCOMPANY THE EMPEROR ON A VISIT TO THE SHAOLIN TEMPLE, by WU ZETIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Upon seeing the place that my deceased mother once patronized
Last Line: Even tears of blood will not bring her back
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Death; Mothers


ACCOMPLICES, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: After all those years
Last Line: Into subterranean pools %to contemplate darkness again
Subject(s): China - Democracy


ACCOUNT OF A DREAM IN XIAO TEMPLE, by NARA SINGDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: How can I pass these nights far from home?
Last Line: And I was here facing %fire in a globe of glass
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Solitude


ACCOUNT OF A VISIT TO LU MOUNTAIN, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Straw sandals, cane of green bamboo
Last Line: My lu mountain poems are summed up in this
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Mountains


ACCOUNT OF THE PAVILION FOR SETTING THE CRANES FREE: SONG, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cranes go off in flight
Last Line: In the western hills you cannot linger longer
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Cranes (birds)


ACTRESS SCORNS WEALTH AND HONOR TO PRESERVE HER CHASTITY, by LI YU+(2)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beauty's power to stir the heart
Last Line: They think - she's shy
Subject(s): Beauty; Chastity; China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


AEROGRAMMES, by RUSSELL CHARLES LEONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Par avion via airmail
Last Line: Of the next %immutable %aerogramme
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; China; Cities; Travel


AFTER A NOVEMBER TYPHOON, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our warden is the south sea, gloomy, threatening
Last Line: And rising, like a delirious mandarin duck
Subject(s): Family Life - China; Typhoons


AFTER GETTING DRUNK, BECOMING SOBER IN THE NIGHT, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our party scattered at yellow dusk and I came home to bed
Last Line: And in my ears something sounded like the music of flutes and strings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Drinks & Drinking; Wine


AFTER LUNCH, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After lunch - one short nap
Last Line: "just go on living, regardless of ""short"" or ""long."
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AFTER THE ANTHOLOGY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Artemis, more passionate
Last Line: To sleep exhausted until you return
Subject(s): Artemis; China; Mythology - Classical; Passion


AFTER THE ANTHOLOGY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Artemis, more passionate
Last Line: To sleep axhausted till you return
Subject(s): Artemis; China; Mythology - Classical; Passion


AFTER THE HAINAN LEGEND, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: A hainan youth, the unrivaled hunter among the villagers
Last Line: And somersaulting and glimmering around the winter sun
Subject(s): Family Life - China


AFTER THE NIGHT, by JIANG SHIWEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Softly, you open your door
Last Line: Like two fish after mating, %each swimming its own way
Subject(s): China - Democracy


AGAIN PASSING THE SHRINE OF THE GODDESS, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her doorway set in white stone cliff
Last Line: You asked of purple asphodel
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


ALARM AT FIRST ENTERING THE YANG-TZE GORGES, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above, a mountain ten thousand feet high
Last Line: Will be laid at last in an un-named grave!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Fear; Yangzi River, China


ALL, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: All is fated %all cloudly
Last Line: Every explosion heralds an instant of stillness, %every death reverberates forever
Subject(s): China - Democracy


ALLEGORY, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red peaches everywhere don their spring colors
Last Line: So how can I become an immortal like shuangcheng?
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ALREADY AN EXPATRIATE POET, by JANE BAILEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nights, he waits in the hospital lobby
Last Line: Alone, crying into his bowl of rice
Subject(s): China; Love; Poetry And Poets


ALSO ALL; IN ANSWER TO BEI DAO'S 'ALL', by GONG PEIYU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not all trees are felled by storms
Last Line: Though we might stumble under the load
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): China - Democracy


AN EARLY LEVEE ADDRESSED TO CH'EN, THE HERMIT, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At ch'ang-an - a full foot of snow
Last Line: And not getting up till the sun has mounted the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ANCHORED AT CHIN-HUAI RIVER, by TU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mist veils the cold water,
Last Line: Back court flowers on the farther bank
Subject(s): China; Rivers


ANCHORED AT GUAZHOU, by WANG ANSHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jinkow and guazhou %the distance
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


ANCHORED NEAR DUTOU ON HUAI RIVER AT SUNSET, by SU SHUNQIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring clouds adrift
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


ANCHORED OVERNIGHT AT MAPLE BRIDGE, by CHANG CHI+(2)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crows caw the moon sets frost fills the sky
Last Line: The sound of the midnight bell reaches a traveler's boat
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ANCHORED OVERNIGHT ON THE CHINHUAI, by TU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vapor shrouds the icy water moonlight shrouds the sand
Last Line: Across the moat girls still sing 'rear palace flowers'
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ANONYMOUS OLD POEM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At fifteen I went with the armies
Last Line: Then I went out the gate and gazed east, %and the tears fell, soaking my robes
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Homecoming


ANONYMOUS OLD POEM (1), by SU WU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I bound my hair and became your wife
Last Line: If you die, I will think of you forever
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Farewell


ANONYMOUS OLD POEM (2), by SU WU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flesh and blood join as branch to leaf
Last Line: I want you to stay and pour it out, %solace of a lifetime's closeness
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Farewell


ANOTHER EARLY MORNING EXERCISE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One hundred feet overhead the fog from the pacific
Subject(s): China; Morning


ANOTHER EARLY MORNING EXERCISE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One hundred feet overhead the fog from the pacific
Last Line: Talking little, %rifles in their hands
Subject(s): China; Morning


ANOTHER POEM ON MR. ZHENG'S EASTERN PAVILION, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This splendid pavilion enters azure mists
Last Line: Towards evening I seek the road I must take, %with tattered clouds flying past horse's flank
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ANOTHER REPENTANCE, by GONG ZI-ZHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Buddhists tell of kalpa fires
Last Line: I am resolved to burn in the lamp %these words of parable
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


ANSWER, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The scoundrel carries his baseness around like an id card
Last Line: Can you see it there? That ancient ideogram - %the eye of the future, gazing back
Subject(s): China - Democracy


ANSWERING A FRIEND'S GIFT OF CHARCOAL, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a plain cottage among green hills
Last Line: Warmed a body bent and twisted %into a straight body
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Gratitude


ANSWERING LI YING WHO SHOWED ME HIS POEMS ABOUT SUMMER FISHING, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though we lived in the same lane
Last Line: Lost beyond roads in a sea of mist
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ANSWERING MAGISTRATE ZHANG, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now late in life I love only stillness
Last Line: You ask the pattern of failure and success? - %the fisherman's song reaches deep past the shore
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Quiet Life


ANSWERING PEI DI, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Murky and flooding, cold currents broaden
Last Line: I know in my heart it's beyond white clouds
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mount Zhong-nan, China; Rain


ANSWERING THE POEM LEFT BY MR. SU, NOMINALLY OF THE BUREAU OF FORESTRY, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Humbly I dwell by the valley's mouth
Last Line: A bell's infrequent tolling that broke %through gibbons' night cries
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests


APRIL IN THE COUNTRY, by WONG JUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the hills and plains
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


ARK, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ship you've boarded
Last Line: Till cool flames float up %from every cabin
Subject(s): China - Democracy


ARMY SONG, by WANG CH'ANG-LING    Poem Source                    
First Line: A dust storm over the gobi
Last Line: Word has come that they've captured %the tu-yu-hun alive
Alternate Author Name(s): Wang Chang-ling
Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ARMY WAGONS; A BALLAD, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wagons went by rumbling
Last Line: When the sky grows shadowed and rains pour down, %you hear their voices wailing
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life


ARRIVING AT HSUN-YANG: 1, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bend of the river brings into view two triumphal arches
Last Line: By misty waters and rainy sands, while the yellow dusk thickens.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel; Journeys; Trips


ARRIVING AT HSUN-YANG: 2, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are almost come to hsun-yang: how my thoughts are stirred
Last Line: They have taken the trouble, these civil people, to meet their new prefect!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel; Journeys; Trips


AS I STEP OVER A PUDDLE AT THE END OF WINTER, I THINK OF AN ANCIENY CHINESE GOVERNOR, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Po chu-I, balding old politician,
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Middle West; China; Seeking; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


ASKING FOR A CAT, by HUANG CHING-JEN+(1)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since autumn the rodents have taken
Last Line: I purchased a fish strung on a willow twig %to beseech you for a kitty
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


ASSEMBLY LINE, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In time's assembly line
Last Line: For my own manufactured fate
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): China - Democracy


AT A PARTY GIVEN BY FAN ZHONG-YAN THE GUESTS SPOKE OF EATING BLOWFISH, by MEI YAO-CH'EN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring isles grow with shoots of reeds
Last Line: I really think that saying is fair
Subject(s): Blowfish; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


AT AN IMPERIAL BANQUET IN PENGLAI HALL OFFERING PRAISE FOR THE ...., by TU SHEN-YEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The northern dipper hangs beside the wall
Last Line: Long may you keep the ways of yao alive
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AT CHINGTZU TEMPLE SEEING OFF LIN TZU-FANG AT DAWN, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Finally west lake in the month of july
Last Line: And their sunlit flowers are a different kind of red
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AT DAYBREAK I CROSSED THE PING-JIANG RIVER AND CLIMBED ON FOOT ..., by WANG SHIH-CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I really did 'cross above clouds'
Last Line: He wanted no fief of ten thousand homes %in the world of mortal men
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Mountain Climbing


AT MISTER TS'UI'S VILLA IN LANTIEN ON THE NINTH, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An old man mourning fall I try to console myself
Last Line: Let's find some prickly ash after we get drunk
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AT SU TERRACE VIEWING THE PAST, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old gardens, a ruined terrace, willow trees new
Last Line: That shone once on a lady in the palace of the king of wu
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Fu-ch'a, King Of Wu, China


AT THE BANQUET TO THE CHINESE EMBASSY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brothers, whom we may not reach
Last Line: To swell the rushing hoang-ho!
Subject(s): China


AT THE END OF SPRING, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deep lane, poor families; I have few friends
Last Line: I am a loosed boat floating a thousand miles
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AT THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perched in a tower of this ancestral wall
Last Line: To espy the ruseful raiders, and his mind %torn with sharp love of the home left far behind
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Great Wall, China


AT THE YANGZI AND HAN, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: They roll on and on, rippling and surging
Last Line: The fishing boat on its way home
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Han River, China; Yangzi River, China


ATTENDING A BANQUET AT PRINCESS CH'ANG-NING'S EASTERN ESTATE, by LI CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her country estate overlooks a blue domain
Last Line: Their philanthropic majesties postpone their departure
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ATTENDING A BANQUET AT THE NEW RESIDENCE OF PRINCESS AN-LO, by SHEN CH'UAN-CH'I    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her royal highness loves immortals and gods
Last Line: She toasts his long life with 'joy pervades heaven'
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ATTENDING A BANQUET ON THE GREAT BEGINNING, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale moon and scattered stars encircle chienchang court
Last Line: An offering of red clouds for the sage on high
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AUGUST 17, SLEEPING IN DAYTIME, by HUANG CHING-JEN+(1)    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this world's red dust, wearing hat of straw
Last Line: Rolling the waves on the river
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


AUGUST SLEEPWALKER, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stone bell tolls on the seabed
Last Line: The august sleepwalker %has seen the sun in the night
Subject(s): China - Democracy


AUGUST SLEEPWALKER, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the sea-floor a stone bell, tolling
Last Line: The august sleepwalker has seen %the midnight sun
Subject(s): China - Democracy


AUTUMN, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn's a blue country
Last Line: The destination sign will fall %from the side of my railroad car
Subject(s): China - Democracy


AUTUMN AT THE GATE, by LIU HAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The quacking is gone the jade screen is empty
Last Line: Paulownia leaves cover the steps in the moonlight
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AUTUMN CARES: 2, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The autumn's moon complexion is ice
Last Line: A beech tree looming and bare, %sound and echo like sad notes plucked
Subject(s): Autumn; Beech Trees; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons; Trees


AUTUMN COVERS ALL THE WORLD, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They are more thrifty than I am
Subject(s): Autumn; China; Seasons


AUTUMN DAY, by KENG WEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day's late light fills a village lane
Last Line: Millet sways in autumn wind
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AUTUMN DAY ON THE LAKE, by HSUEH YING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sailing on the great lake at sunset
Last Line: Who can tell me why they flow east
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AUTUMN EVENING, by TU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silver lantern autumn light chills her painted screen
Last Line: Lying down she gazes at the weaving maid and herdboy stars
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AUTUMN HILLS: 1, by GU YAN-WU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn hills, more autumn hills
Last Line: Men of yan and ting of olden days %are still found south of the city
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


AUTUMN INSPIRATION: 1, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jade dew wounds a forest of maples
Last Line: In paiti at dusk the mallets beat faster
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AUTUMN INSPIRATION: 2, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hillside town of a thousand homes rests in morning light
Last Line: In wuling their robes are light and their horses well-fed
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AUTUMN INSPIRATION: 3, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Penglai hall looks south toward the mountains
Last Line: I often return to court below the painted gates
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AUTUMN INSPIRATION: 4, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kunming lake was the jewel of the han
Last Line: Rivers and marshes are a fisherman's world
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AUTUMN LONGING IN CH'ANG-AN, by CHAO KU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Desolate cloud shapes brush past the dawn
Last Line: A prisoner from ch'u I wear a strange hat
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AUTUMN MOON, by CHU HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A pure stream flows past a jade green peak
Last Line: White clouds and yellow leaves appear without end
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AUTUMN MOONLIGHT ON LAKE DONG-TING, by MA CHIH-YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clouds veil the moon
Last Line: The sound %blows out the flame
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341)


AUTUMN ON NAN-YUEH (WITH THE EXILED UNIVERSITIES OF PEKING), by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If flight's as general as this
Last Line: The streams will chatter as they flow
Subject(s): China - Japanese Invasions (1874-1945); Nan-yueh (mountain); Universities & Colleges


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 1, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jade white dew scars and harms
Last Line: Pounding blocks urgent in dusk
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 2, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On kui-zhou's lonely walls
Last Line: In front of sandbars has cast its light %on flowers of the reeds
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 3, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand homes of the mountain town
Last Line: And the mantles they wear are light
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 4, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been told that chang-an
Last Line: Is the longing of my heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 5, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Palace towers of peng-lai
Last Line: Take my place in dawn court's ranks?
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 6, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the mouth of the ju-tang gorge
Last Line: Qin since ancient times has been %land of emperors
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 7, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The waters of kun-ming pool
Last Line: Lakes and rivers fill the earth, %and one old man, fishing
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Lakes; Seasons


AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 8, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At kun-wu hill the yu-su brook
Last Line: Head hanging in bitterness
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN THOUGHTS, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like oxen on fire we're driven by desire
Last Line: Where can I find yuan-lung's old tower
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AUTUMN THOUGHTS, by MA CHIH-YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Withered vines, old trees, twilight crows
Last Line: A man, broken-hearted, on a far horizon
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341)


AUTUMN THOUGHTS (8), by HAN YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blown tumbling, leaves that fall to the ground
Last Line: There's something on my mind just now, %a task to be done that never ends
Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


AUTUMN WIND, by WU-TI (157 B.C.- 87 B.C.)    Poem Source                    
First Line: The autumn wind rises
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Wind


AUTUMN WIND AT HANGU PASS: WRITTEN ON COMMAND, by XU HUI+1    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn winds lift up
Last Line: Attesting to the mystic sage's return
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


AWAY FROM HOME AT THE BEGINNING OF SUMMER, by SSU-MA KUANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In may when it's mild and the rain finally stops
Last Line: Everywhere sunflowers lean toward the sun
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


BALLAD OF AN OLD CYPRESS, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In front of the shrine of zhu-ge liang
Last Line: It has always been true that the greatest timber %is hardest put to use
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Cypress Trees


BALLAD OF CHANGKAN, by TS'UI HAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where are you from good sir
Last Line: Perhaps we're from the same place
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


BALLAD OF MOUNT JING, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swarms of flies cluster around my sick horse
Last Line: At a moment like this the traveler's heart %is a flag in the wind a hundred feet high
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains


BALLAD OF MU-LAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tsk, tsk, and tsk, tsk
Last Line: But when two hares run side by side, %who can tell if I'm a boy or girl?
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fathers And Daughters; Soldiers


BALLAD OF RUNNING HORSE RIVER; SENDING OFF THE ARMY, by TS'EN SHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Have you not seen
Last Line: At the western gate of ju-shi we %await news of the victory
Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life


BALLAD OF THE FORMER PALACE, by WANG JIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silent and empty, former palace of pleasure
Last Line: Sit peacefully telling tales of xuan-zong
Subject(s): Xuan-zong, Emperor Of China; Yang Yu-huan (prized Consort)


BALLAD OF THE PAINTED EAGLE, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High in the hall I saw a live bird
Last Line: Why now do my thoughts feel such pain, %as I walk, looking back, feelings twisted within?
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Birds; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Eagles; Paintings And Painters


BALLAD OF THE WESTERN ISLAND IN THE NORTH COUNTRY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Seeing the plum-tree I thought of the western island
Last Line: It would blow my dreams till they got to the western island
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


BALLAD OF THE YONG-JIA, by ZHANG JI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then the blond-headed xian-pi
Last Line: And to this day the southerners %speak the idiom of jin
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); China - Southern Dynasties


BALLADE OF BLUE CHINA, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a joy without canker or cark
Last Line: In the reign of the emperor hwang.
Subject(s): China (porcelain); Ingenuity


BALLADE OF THE CHINESE LOVER, by STUART MERRILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the waves of the yang-tse-kiang
Last Line: From han-yang, woo-hoo to far tchin-ting.
Subject(s): China


BAMBOO RETREAT, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sitting alone amid dense bamboo
Last Line: Until the bright moon looks down
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


BEARER'S SONG, by MIU HSI    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I was alive, I wandered in the streets of the capital
Last Line: And none born can escape this thing.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Death; Dead, The


BEGGING, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Famine came, it drove me off
Last Line: So much within me, I know not how to thank you, %I must pay you back from the world beyond
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Famine


BEGGING FOR FOOD, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Driven by hunger I leave my home
Last Line: So I'll repay your kindness in the hereafter
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


BEGONIA, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The east wind gently spreads her celestial glow
Last Line: I light a tall candle to view her crimson face
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


BEI TAI-HE BEACH, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I felt like a child of eight that night
Last Line: The anchorage of the heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): China - Democracy; Longing


BEIJING, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mao wanted to get rid of birds
Last Line: A watery eye is its only home
Subject(s): Beijing, China; Birds


BEIJING, by CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is your blood again
Last Line: To prevent the future from ever taking place
Subject(s): Beijing, China; Human Rights; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989


BEIJING BIRD MEN, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are beautiful
Last Line: But I resist it
Subject(s): China


BEING ON DUTY ALL NIGHT IN THE PALACE AND DREAMING OF HSIEN-YU TEMPLE, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the western window I paused from writing rescripts
Last Line: I still thought it the murmur of a mountain stream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sleep; Temples; Mosques


BEING VISITED BY A FRIEND DURING ILLNESS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been ill so long that I do not count the days
Last Line: Gradually the feelings came back to my numbed heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sickness; Illness


BENDING RIVER: 1, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When a single petal falls away
Last Line: What use to let hopes of tenuous glory %fetter this body of mine?
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


BIOGRAPHY OF MASTER FIVE WILLOWS, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We don't know what age the master lived in, and we aren't certain of his
Last Line: The age of lord no-cares? Was he a person of the age of ge-tian?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Self


BITS OF REMINISCENCE, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A toppled wine-cup
Last Line: A dream, half-illumined, half-obscure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Memory


BITTER COLD, by CAO CAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Northward we climbed the tai-hang range
Last Line: Sad is that poem 'eastern mountains': %it makes my heart always grieve
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Grief; Travel


BLACK ROBE LANE, by LIU YU-HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wildflowers bloom by red bird bridge
Last Line: They now frequent homes of ordinary people
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


BLACK-AND-WHITE SKETCHES, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: My world is burning like my palms
Last Line: The lilacs tremble in the gathering dark
Subject(s): China - Democracy


BLAMING SONS, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White hair shrouds both my temples
Last Line: If this is the luck heaven sends me, %then pour me the 'thing in the cup!'
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): Children; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


BLAMING SONS (AN APOLOGY FOR HIS OWN DRUNKENNESS), by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White hair covers my temples
Last Line: What can I do but fill my cup?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Sons


BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ebbed and flowed the muddy pei-ho by the gulf of pechili
Last Line: Blood is thicker, sir, than water, now as then.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Americans; China; Navy - United States; Patriotism; Tattnall, Josiah (1795-1871); American Navy


BLOOD OF ONE ENTIRE CLASS HAS ALREADY BEEN SHED, by LI SHIZHENG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Again the red terror begins %its savage hammering
Subject(s): China - Democracy


BOATING IN AUTUMN, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Away and away I sail in my light boat
Last Line: And need not fear the greed of the evening wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


BOATING ON THE RESERVOIR WEST OF THE CITY, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark blue brows and gleaming teeth
Last Line: How could we have brought these hundred jugs %of ale that flow like a fountain?
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


BOATING ON WEST LAKE: TO ZHANG SHAN, ACDEMICIAN & FISCAL COMMISSIONER, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light on the waves, colors of willows
Last Line: There were mansions and terraces high and low %in the light of the evening sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): Boats; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


BODDHISATTVA BARBARIAN, by LI YU+(1)    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flowers are bright, the moon is dark
Last Line: Let's grab all the pleasure we can
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


BODDHISATTVA BARBARIAN, by WEI ZHUANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everyone says that the southland's fine
Last Line: I vow not to go home till my hair is white
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


BODDHISATTVA BARBARIAN, by WEN T'ING-YUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside a curtain of crystal
Last Line: And the jade hairpin: wind on her head
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


BODY/ART, by JON THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When bodhidarma was asked by the chinese emperor wu
Last Line: In the worlds to come
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Bodies; China


BONE CHINA, by RICHARD PERCIVAL LISTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of these thin, thin cups I drink pale tea
Last Line: I'd rather ply my latter ghost with ale %or drink rice wine by moonlight with my former
Subject(s): China (porcelain)


BOUND FEET, by DEBORAH BURNHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Golden lilies, golden lotus, the chinese called the feet
Last Line: Who rise at dawn and carry dinner to the hungry town
Subject(s): China; Feet


BOWING TO THE NEW MOON, by GENG WEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Opening drapes, she sees the new moon
Last Line: On her skirt's sash the north wind blows
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Moon


BOWING TO THE NEW MOON, by LI DUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Opening drapes, she sees the new moon
Last Line: On her skirt's sash the north wind blows
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Moon


BOWING TO THE NEW MOON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My traveling man's off in another land
Last Line: And swear never to betray him
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


BREAKING THE BRANCHES OF WILLOWS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A date tree grows before my gate
Last Line: And this year again there's no good news
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Marriage


BREAKING THROUGH THE RANKS, by YAN SHU    Poem Source                    
First Line: That time of year when swallows are set to go
Last Line: These feelings, in thousands, one after another
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


BRIEF POEM ON PLUM BLOSSOMS, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


BRIGHT BLOSSOMS SELDOM LAST LONG, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Remembering the past wounds my soul
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


BRIGHT SUN LIGHTS OUT OVER THE WESTERN BANK, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Right through till dawn, I find rest impossible
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


BROWN TOES IN CHINA, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Del cascar, del cascar
Subject(s): China


BU JU (DIVINATION), by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have an uncertainty in my mind which I should like you
Last Line: Turtle and the divining-stalks are really unable to be of help
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


BURIAL SONG: THE DEW ON THE GARLIC LEAF, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How swiftly it dries
Last Line: Will never more return
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);funerals; Burials


BURIAL SONG: THE GRAVEYARD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What man's land is the graveyard
Last Line: Man's fate knows no tarrying
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);funerals; Burials


BURNING THE FIELDS IN SPRING, by WANG YU-CH'ENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: We plant those slopes
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


BUSINESS MEN, by CH'EN TZU-ANG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Business men boast of their skill and cunning
Last Line: On the chariot of mutation entered the gate of immutability?
Alternate Author Name(s): Po-yu
Subject(s): Business; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Businessmen; Businesswomen


BUTTERFLIES LOVE FLOWERS, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep, so deep within the yard
Last Line: A tumult of red flies away %past the swing
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


BUTTERFLIES LOVE FLOWERS, by YAN JIDAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was drunk as I left the western hall
Last Line: And wastes in tears on my behalf %in night's cold
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


BY THE LAKE, by ZHANG KE-JIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Far-off waters, sunlit skies
Last Line: A painted bridge where willow catkins blow
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341)


BY THE PASSES, by LU LUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moon was black, the geese flew high
Last Line: A blizzard covered our bows and swords
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life


BY THE PASSES; A SONG, by LI HE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The turkish horn draws the north wind
Last Line: North of the tents the sky must end, %flowing out from the passes the river's sound comes
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life; War


BY THE PASSES; SONGS (2), by GUAN-XIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bones from battles are trampled to dust
Last Line: Who will stand out before the son of heaven %and sing out this song of the border forts?
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life


CALLILGRAPHY LESSON, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have been %in china
Last Line: A few small %careful strokes
Subject(s): China


CALLING BACK THE RECLUSE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dense groves of cassia in hills' hidden places
Last Line: Come home now my prince - %in the hills one may not linger so long
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Rites And Ceremonies


CALLING BACK THE SOUL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soul! Turn back!
Last Line: Have pity on the southland!
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Rites And Ceremonies; Soul


CALLING ON CENSOR YUAN WITHOUT SUCCESS, by MENG HAO-JAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In loyang I tried to visit you sir
Last Line: But how could spring compare
Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CALLING TO THE RECLUSE, by LU JI    Poem Source                    
First Line: At daybreak I feel uneasy at my heart
Last Line: If honor and wealth are hard to devise, %let me unhitch my team and do what I will
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Country Life


CALLING TO THE RECLUSE: 1, by ZUO SI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I leaned on my staff and called to the recluse
Last Line: As I pace here, pausing, my feet grow weary - %I would cast down the pins of my officer's cap
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Country Life


CAPITAL 'I', by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stare into the sun, at the bright dawn
Last Line: The east is merely a myth no loner!
Subject(s): China - Democracy


CASUAL POEM ON A SPRING DAY, by CH'ENG HAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The clouds are thin the wind is light the sun is nearly overhead
Last Line: They think I'm wasting time or acting like a child
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CH'IN CHIA'S WIFE'S REPLY, by MRS. CH'IN CHIA    Poem Text                    
First Line: My poor body is alas unworthy
Last Line: The tears fall down and wet my skirt.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Marriage; Sickness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness


CHAMBER THOUGHTS: 3, by XU GAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clouds go drifting in billowing floods
Last Line: Like flowing waters I long for you - %there is never a time that they end
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Clouds; Longing; Mirrors


CHANG E, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Upon a screen of mica
Last Line: Her heart night after night
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


CHANG-AN HAS NARROW ALLEYS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Be still, my lord, and listen awhile, %for the play of the strings is not done yet
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


CHARMS OF NIAN-NU, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eastward goes the great river
Last Line: And I pour my winecup as offering %in the river's moonbeams
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Sea Battles


CHASING THE SUN, by YU YOUZE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day kau-fu set out he was already old
Last Line: When he raised his eyes he'd see peaches rolling all round him over hills and valleys
Subject(s): China - Democracy


CHIANGNAN SPRING, by TU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: A thousand miles of oriole songs and red among the green
Last Line: And how many pagodas in the land of mist and rain
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CHILD CRYING FOR FOOD, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Warm and well fed, could I fail to know
Last Line: Is exactly the time when the millet %is almost fully cooked
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Hunger


CHILD PLAYING WITH ICE, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the metal bowl a child
Last Line: Shattering on the ground
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Ice


CHILDREN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My niece, who is six years old, is called 'miss tortoise'
Last Line: Why did I think that I alone should escape?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Children; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Childhood


CHINA, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dragon hatched a cockatrice
Last Line: With snail so well they make one piece %most wrecked and longest of all histories
Subject(s): China; Travel


CHINA, by BOB PERELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We live on the third world from the sun. Number three. Nobody tells us
Last Line: But better get used to dreams too
Subject(s): China; Language Poetry


CHINA, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: His hand begins to prepare for attack
Last Line: I really wish I had died with the citizens
Subject(s): China


CHINA 1937, by LAURA FRANCES ALEXANDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now is old cathay a broken bowl
Last Line: To the gods of time and war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Frances
Subject(s): China


CHINA OBSERVED THROUGH GREEK RAIN IN TURKISH COFFEE, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The drizzle %falls into my coffee
Last Line: The cup whose contents %are now completely clear
Subject(s): China; Coffee


CHINA'S BRAVEST GIRL; THE LEGEND OF HUA MU LAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The emperor called for the pipa player
Last Line: Is loved by the chinese people %and retold each generation
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Hua, Mu-lan (legendary Character); Legends, Chinese


CHINA, 1857, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little athens from its pillared hill
Last Line: That does not raise or purify the soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): China


CHINAMAN ON ICE, by JOANNE LOWERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Despite the cold his heavy feet
Last Line: He laughs cherry blossoms on his cheeks %a yellow hand reaching
Subject(s): China


CHINESE BALLAD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now he has seen the girl hsiang-hsiang
Last Line: Come back, in a few days.'
Subject(s): Children; China - Civil Wars


CHINESE BICYCLE POEM, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Phoenix, black rooster
Last Line: Pigeon, forever
Subject(s): China


CHINESE CEMETARY AT VICTORIA, by GLENN HUGHES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alien as well as desolate, this place
Last Line: As pale as incense by a temple door.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; China; Graveyards


CHINESE FAN PAINTING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late afternoon, the cherries bloom
Last Line: Cherry trees blooming in both the worlds
Subject(s): China; Fans; Paintings And Painters


CHINESE LANDSCAPE BY FAN K'UAN, by MARTHA BLACK JORDAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bold brush mark on the long scroll
Last Line: Unmoved, they drink the ashes in the cup
Subject(s): China; Landscape; Paintings And Painters


CHINESE POND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chinese pond is quick with leeches
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Ponds; China


CHINESE REMEDIES, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Early morning %in shanhaiguan
Last Line: Like no other, %stretching us all
Subject(s): China


CHINESE SPACE, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Beijing. China; Ancestors & Ancestry; Relatives; Heritage; Heredity


CHINGMING, by HUANG CHING-JEN+(1)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peach and plum trees smile on chingming day
Last Line: Both share the same bramble-covered hills
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CHINGMING, by WANG YU-CH'ENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Celbrating chingming without flowers or wine
Last Line: For my lamp by the window to read before dawn
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CHINGPING ODE, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her cloudlike clothing and flowerlike face
Last Line: It must be alabaster terrace in the moonlight
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CHIUPU RIVER SONG, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My white hair extends three miles
Last Line: Where autumn frost comes from
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CHONG XIN, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chong xin, my little brother, left us
Last Line: Were green and full of joyful sparrows
Variant Title(s): Chung Shi
Subject(s): Family Life - China


CHOOSING A DWELLING PLACE IN LUO-YANG, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back from three years in charge of a province
Last Line: I'm not watching out for myself alone - %my rocks and crane must have a haven
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Houses


CHUANG-TZU, THE MONIST, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chuang-tzu levels all things
Last Line: A phoenix is superior to a reptile!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Chuang-tzu (4th Century)


CHUCHOU'S WEST STREAM, by WEI YING-WU    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love unnoticed plants that grow beside a stream
Last Line: I pull myself across on an unmanned country ferry
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CHUNGNAN MOUNTAINS, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Taiyi isn't far from the heart of heaven
Last Line: I yell to a woodcutter across the stream
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CICADAS, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dew-rinsed %their pure notes
Last Line: On its one branch, %alone
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Cicadas


CICADAS, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dew drops bathe their clear, distant tones
Last Line: Though each lives on a different branch
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Cicadas


CITADEL OF SAPPHIRE WALLS (1), by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Citadel of sapphire walls, twelve turns
Last Line: I would spend my whole life facing %a bowl of crystal
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CITIES, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: As there are books on beehives
Last Line: A book indeed
Subject(s): Boston; China; Cities; London; New York City; Paris, France


CITY AT NIGHT, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is raining softly. The night has come
Last Line: I see the electric lights of the concession shrine
Subject(s): China; Cities; Night


CITY OF 12,000 BRIDGES, SUZHOU, by DANEEN WARDROP    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Who never thought to write to me
Subject(s): Absence; China; Cities; Travel


CIVILIZATION, by YUAN CHIEH    Poem Text                    
First Line: To the south-east - three thousand leagues
Last Line: Whether saints and sages have really done us good.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tz'u-shan
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Civilization


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 1, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fishhawks sing gwan gwan
Last Line: Gentle maiden, pure and fair, %with bells and dfrums do her delight
Subject(s): Birds; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Hawks


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 10, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All along the bluffs of the ru
Last Line: My mother and father are close by
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 104, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cricket in the hall
Last Line: Delight should not get out of hand, %the well-born man is steady
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 105, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hawthorn on the mountain
Last Line: For when you wither up and die, %another man will take you home
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 107. 'SANDALS OF STRAW', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So tightly wound, sandals of straw
Last Line: This is a man of ungenerous heart, %thus he gets the needle's barb
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Generosity


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 111, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within ten acres of groves
Last Line: And why don't we go off together?
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 12. 'MAGPIE'S NEST', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O the magpie has its nest
Last Line: The bride is going to her home, %a hundred coaches in her train
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Magpies; Marriage


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 131. 'YELLOW BIRD', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jiao cries the yellow bird
Last Line: If this one could be ransomed, %for his life, a hundred
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Ransoms


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 137, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eastern gate's white elms
Last Line: We see you as the lavender, %who gives us pepper in handfuls
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 138. 'BARRED GATE', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind barred gates
Last Line: Taking wife, who needs %the royal daughter of song?
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship; Fishing And Fishermen; Metaphor


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 140, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Willows by the eastern gate
Last Line: And now the morning star shines pale
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Willow Trees


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 158. 'CUTTING THE HAFT', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How do you cut a haft?
Last Line: And now I see her face to face, %plates and tureens in rows
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 161, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yoo, yoo cry the deer
Last Line: Thus I have this fine wine, %to feast and delight my worthy guests' hearts
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Guests


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 167, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gather them, gather them, fiddlehead ferns
Last Line: Our hearts are wounded with pain, %no man knows how much we mourn
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); War


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 168. 'BRINGING FORTH THE CHARIOTS', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We bring our chariots forth
Last Line: Nan-zhong strikes terror, %the xian-yun are brought low
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 17, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dews are soaking the way
Last Line: You still will not have your way
Subject(s): Boats; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 177. 'SIXTH MONTH', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the sixth month, it was all tumult
Last Line: Nan-zhong, loyal to parent and friend
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); War


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 184, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The crane cries out in deepest marsh
Last Line: The stones of other mountains %we can use to work our jade
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Cranes (birds)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 20, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Plums are falling
Last Line: Let me be the bride of one
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Plums


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 22, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river has its forkings
Last Line: She will not stop to visit me, %and now I sing here wailing
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 23. 'DEAD ROE DEER', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A roe deer dead in the meadow
Last Line: And don't set the cur to barking
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Death - Animals; Deer


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 236. 'THE GENTLE BRIGHTNESS', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The brightness is below
Last Line: The morning they gathered was clear and bright
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 237. 'SPREADING', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Melons spreading, large and small
Last Line: He had those who would fend off slights
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 24, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah, how splendid
Last Line: And the grandchild of king ping
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship; Fishing And Fishermen; Metaphor


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 245, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She who first bore the folk
Last Line: It has lasted until now
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Harvest


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 250. LIU THE DUKE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Duke liu the steadfast
Last Line: All the way to the bend of the rui
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 255, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Overbearing the high god
Last Line: It is there in the reigns of the lords of xia
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 26, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That boat of cypress drifts along
Last Line: I cannot spread wings to fly away
Subject(s): Boats; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 262, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yangzi and han go rolling on
Last Line: He spreads his power gained by cultured works, %attunes the domains all around
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 277, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have in hand our offerings
Last Line: And in this way preserve it
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 290, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mowing grasses, felling trees
Last Line: From early times it was as this
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 30, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: First the wind, then the storm
Last Line: I lie awake and cannot sleep, %my heart is filled with yearning
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Desire; Storms


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 34, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaves are dry on the gourd now
Last Line: I am waiting for my friend
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Waiting


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 35, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Valley winds are howling
Last Line: You gave no heed to earlier times, %when once you came and loved me
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Love - Unrequited


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 36, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hard straits, hard straits
Last Line: Only for a man, our lord, %are we here within the muck
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 4, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the south are trees with bending boughs
Last Line: Mirth and joy be to our prince, %and may fair fortune bide with him
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 41. 'NORTH WIND', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chilly is the north wind
Last Line: We must leave now!
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Wind


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 42, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A gentle girl and fair
Last Line: You are but beauty's gift
Subject(s): Beauty; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 46, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thorn-vine on the wall
Last Line: But the words defile
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 46, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That boat of cypress drifts along
Last Line: Won't you put faith in me?
Subject(s): Boats; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 48. 'IN THE MULBERRIES', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where did I pick the sweet pair?
Last Line: And went off with me on the river ji
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Love


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 5, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grasshoppers'wings
Last Line: Be fruitful and grow rife
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Grasshoppers


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 51. 'RAINBOW', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a rainbow in the east
Last Line: She defied what was bidden
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Rainbows


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 59. 'BAMBOO POLE', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is flex and play in bamboo poles
Last Line: I hitch my team, go roaming %to ease my troubled mind
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 6, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peach tree soft and tender
Last Line: She well befits these folk
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Trees


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 61. 'THE RIVER IS BROAD', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who claims that the river is wide?
Last Line: I can be there ere morning is done
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Rivers


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 63. 'FOX', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fox on the prowl, on the prowl
Last Line: That person wears nothing at all
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Foxes


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 64. 'QUINCE', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She cast a quince to me
Last Line: But by this love will last
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Quince Trees


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 65. 'MILLET LUSH', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There the millet is lush
Last Line: What man is this?
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Loitering


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 66, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My prince has taken the field
Last Line: How can I not hunger for him?
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Love


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 7, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rabbit snare has mesh so fine
Last Line: Heart and gut of our lord duke
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 73, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great cart goes rumbling along
Last Line: It will shine as bright as the sun
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Love


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 76, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Zhong-zi please
Last Line: That too many nay be held in dread
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 77, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shu is on a field hunt
Last Line: So there is like shu, %a soldierly, handsome man
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Love


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 81, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I went along the broad road
Last Line: Do not scorn me, %never spurn a love
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Relationships


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 82. 'ROOSTER CROWS', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The woman said, ' the rooster calls'
Last Line: I'll answer you with many jewels
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 83. 'NO CLOTHES', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How can you say, 'I have no clothes'?
Last Line: We will make ready buffcoat and drik, %and I will march with you
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Clothing And Dress


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 87. 'LIFT YOUR KILTS', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you love me dearly
Last Line: There are other squires, %o rashest of all rash young men
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 9. 'THE HAN SO WIDE', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tall are trees in the south country
Last Line: The river too long %to go bt raft
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Han River, China


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 90. 'WIND AND RAIN', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chill and dreary, wind and rain
Last Line: What else but heart's delight
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 93, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Huge rat, huge rat
Last Line: Happy meadows, happy meadows %where none need wail and cry
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Politics; Rats


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 94, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Creepers on the moorland
Last Line: It was by chance we met, %together went for cover
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 95, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O zhen and wei together
Last Line: Each will frolic with the other %and give as gift the peony
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Courtship


CLEAR AND EVEN MUSIC, by NARA SINGDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tresses in stormy tangles and coils
Last Line: In growing dusk facing the blossoms of pear
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


CLEAR AND EVEN MUSIC, by XIN QIJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A harness goes flying beside the willows
Last Line: At the sound of a child crying in front of her gate
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


CLEAR RIVER, by GUAN YUN-SHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I gave up what little status I had
Last Line: And we loathe %a universe that seems too small
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341)


CLEARING HAZE AT A MARKET IN THE HILLS, by MA CHIH-YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Past the village filled with flowers
Last Line: Is added another swathe of azure green
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341)


CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN, by LI SHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day I feel lost as if drunk or in a dream
Last Line: And spend another afternoon beyond this floating life
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN, by TAO YUN    Poem Text                    
First Line: High rises the eastern peak
Last Line: Where springs and autumns unheeded pass.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Mountain Climbing


CLIMBING AN UPPER STORY BY THE POOL, by XIE LING-YUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A dragon, submerged, enhances sequestered charms
Last Line: Holding fast to standards is not only of old - %'being free from distress' is confirmed now
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


CLIMBING BAO-GONG PAGODA, by WANG ANSHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: My tired servant and worn-out horse
Last Line: This holy man forgets the self, %while I myself forget words
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


CLIMBING HSIEH T'IAO'S NORTH TOWER IN HSUANCHENG IN AUTUMN, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This river town looks like a painting
Last Line: Of facing the wind and remembering hsieh t'iao
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CLIMBING STORK TOWER, by WANG ZHIHUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bright sun rests on the hills and is gone
Last Line: Climb just one more story of this tower
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CLIMBING TAI SHAN, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six thousand steps
Subject(s): China; Tai Shan (mountain), China


CLIMBING THE LING-YING TERRACE AND LOOKING NORTH, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mounting on high I begin to realize the smallness of man's domain
Last Line: A single grain of rice falling -- into the great barn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CLIMBING THE TERRACE OF KUAN-YIN AND LOOKING AT THE CITY, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hundreds of houses, thousands of houses, - like a chessboard
Last Line: And a single row of stars lying to the west of the five gates.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CLIMBING TO CANOPY PAVILION ON A SUMMER DAY, by TS'AI CH'UEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A paper screen a stone pillow a square bamboo bed
Last Line: At the sound of a fisherman's flute on the waves
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CLIMBING WHITE STORK TOWER, by WANG CHIH-HUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The midday sun slips behind mountains
Last Line: I climb one more story
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CLIMBING YENCHOU TOWER, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Visiting my father in east district
Last Line: But this time my heart trembled
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CLIMBING YUEHYANG TOWER, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard long ago about tungting lake
Last Line: My tears fall on the railing
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


COCK-CROW SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "in the eastern quarter dawn breaks, the stars flicker pale"
Last Line: "round the palace and up by the castle, the crows and magpies are flying"
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


COCKS CROW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cocks crow in the treetops
Last Line: A tree will offer itself for another, %but brother forgets brother
Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Trees


COLD FOOD, by CHAO TING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over the most remote poorest village gate
Last Line: And try to ignore the evening flute I hear on the city wall
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


COLD FOOD, by HAN HUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The city in spring isn't safe from flying petals
Last Line: Smoke curls faintly inside the great estates
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


COLD SPRING PAVILION, by LIN CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A stream of pure water can soothe a poet's soul
Last Line: Looking back it's changed since the mountains
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


COMMISERATING WITH GENTLEMAN-IN-WAITING WANG ON TUNGTING LAKE, by CHANG WEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through tungting lake in the middle of fall
Last Line: But when will we join them again
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


COMPANION PIECE FOR GRAND MASTER YAN'S 'NEWLY CLEARED SKIES', by YU HSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vapors over water consume evening's light
Last Line: If only the mind could take all things as equal - %why feel distress that things are not equal at al
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


COMPANION PIECE FOR XIE JING'S 'TERRACE OF THE BROWN SPARROW', by HSIEH T'IAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lace curtains flap on the open frame
Last Line: Desolate still is his throne of jade, %even more, our bodies of such small worth
Alternate Author Name(s): Hsuan-hui; Xie Tiao
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Grief


COMPANION PIECE TO A POEM BY QIAN-QUAN, by HUANG JING-REN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here where the master, his whisk in hand
Last Line: Yet after the great bell's single sound %there is sound no more
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Poetry And Poets; Silence


COMPANION PIECE TO CHEN XIANG'S 'PEONIES ON A WINTER DAY': 1, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A single bloom of beguiling red
Last Line: And will not allow these idle flowers %even the briefest respite
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Peonies


COMPANION PIECE TO LIU CHANG'S 'CLEAR HEART PAPER', by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you not seen how those truly rare talents
Last Line: How do we know that in times to come, %such writers won't show up again?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


COMPANION PIECE TO SU CHE'S 'THOUGHTS OF FORMER TIMES AT MIAN-CHI', by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Human life no matter where
Last Line: And my limping donkey brayed
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Poetry And Poets


COMPANION PIECE TO XIE JING-CHU'S 'SPENDING THE NIGHT...', by MEI YAO-CH'EN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blue burned the lamp flame, the man was asleep
Last Line: That was really a childish idea
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Insomnia


CONCERNING HER BLACKBIRD, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the oil lamp she was sewing as I glued my
Last Line: Would not change me into a blackbird
Subject(s): Family Life - China


CONCUBINE'S LAMENT, by HUANG-FU JAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A flowering branch grows from chienchang palace
Last Line: Exactly how long are their eyebrows
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CONFUCIUS, ANALECTS XI.26, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Zi-lu, ran you, gong-xi hua, and zeng xi were sitting in attendance
Last Line: The master let out a sigh. 'I am with zeng xi'
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Confucius And Confucianism


CRACK, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hidden among boards and stones
Last Line: A centipede dangles like a spring, %then vanishes
Subject(s): China - Democracy


CRESCENT MOON, by MEI YAO-CH'EN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the crescent moon comes shining
Last Line: On the ancient plain there's rustling %and there is no wind
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Moon


CROSSING THE ANCIENT BARRIER PASS IN THE RAIN, by WANG SHIH-CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Perilous walkways, flying cascades
Last Line: Ash tree flowers will fill the road %as I cross the ancient pass
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


CROSSING THE SEA, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Orion lies flat, the dipper bends down
Last Line: This present trip's utter wonder %crowns my entire life
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


CROSSING THE YANGTZE, by TING HSIEN-CHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: My oars of cassia I gaze from midstream
Last Line: The brittle sounds of another autumn
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


CROSSING THE YELLOW RIVER, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: A boat sailing on the great river
Last Line: The broad flood is joined to clouds and mist
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Yellow River, China


CROSSING THE YELLOW RIVER TO CH'ING-HO, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sailing by boat upon the great river
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Yellow River, China


CROSSING THE YELLOW RIVER: JUNE 12 (1233), by YUAN HAO-WEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: White bones scattered %like tangled hemp
Last Line: Crumbled houses, scattered chimney smoke %from a few homes
Subject(s): Yellow River, China


CROWS AT THE SUMMER PALACE, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dissipated feathers on roofs, why roll
Last Line: Queens are dead. No kings sit on the throne
Subject(s): Family Life - China


CROWS CRY AT NIGHT, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the walls in yellow clouds
Last Line: And stays in her chamber all alone %where her tears fall like the rain
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Absence; Birds; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Crows


CULTURAL EVOLUTION; AFTER POPE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When from his cave, young mao in his youthful mind
Last Line: Marx and confucius turned out much the same.
Subject(s): China; Communism; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


DA ZHAO (THE GREAT SUMMONS), by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green spring follows the old year and the bright sun shines
Last Line: O soul, come back! Revive the ways of the three kings of old
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


DAY DREAMS, by TSO SSU    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I was young I played with a soft brush
Last Line: But refusing with a bow, retire to a cottage in the country.
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ai-ch'ung+(1)
Subject(s): Books; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Writing & Writers; Reading


DEAD DRUNK IN THE EAST WIND, by XU ZAI-SI    Poem Source                    
First Line: My sweetheart and I had long been apart
Last Line: To let him know by the voice is was me
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341)


DEAD TURK, by LI KUANG-T'IEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Was he english, or french?
Last Line: On a certain day in a certain month of a certain year, %there was such and such a human being
Subject(s): China - Foreign Population; Death


DEATH IN CHINA, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is part of life
Last Line: Have always gone
Subject(s): Beijing, China; Cemeteries; China


DEEPLY MOVED, I SEND THIS TO SOMEONE, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I entrust my bitterness to a lute's crimson strings
Last Line: I don't sweep them away, waiting for one who understands me
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


DELAYED ON THE SZECHUAN ROAD, by CHANG YUEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A traveler races the sun and moon
Last Line: It reaches loyang before me
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


DESCRIPTION OF WALKING IN THE MEADOWS ON COLD FOOD FESTIVAL, by FAN CH'ENG-TA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A wilderness inn by a dock with weeping willows
Last Line: I'm sure because last year's harvest was rich
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


DEW ON THE ONION GRASS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On onion grass the dew
Last Line: When a person dies he is gone, %never to return
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Funerals


DIAGRAM OF EIGHT FORMATIONS, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His deeds overshadowed a land split in three
Last Line: Pain surviving from failure to swallow wu
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


DIALOGUE IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask me why it is
Last Line: And there is another world %that is not of mortal men
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


DIGGING DOWN TO CHINA, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we were boys
Last Line: I won't make it to china
Subject(s): Children; China


DIGGING FOR CHINA, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far enough down is china,' somebody said.
Subject(s): China


DISHES, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the street where I grew up, there was a man whose mother went mad from
Last Line: Plates rattle on, and I peer through a slit to gaze at the obscene shape of the moon
Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; China (porcelain); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Pottery And Potters


DITTY: BELOW THE FRONTIER, by SHEN TE-CH'IEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Urgent the cry of the wild geese, wailing amidst the void
Last Line: Source of the yellow river lies south of the great wasteland the
Subject(s): Yellow River, China


DIVIDING THE SKY, by YU YOUZE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pan-gu crouched up there
Last Line: Pan-gu drifted to sleep while the moon foretold a heavenly spring
Subject(s): China - Democracy


DIVINATION SHOWED MY PLACE AMONG THESE BUNCHED CLIFFS, by HAN SHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Empty fame has no value
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Family Life - China; Zen Buddhism


DON'T GO OUT THE GATE!, by LI HE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heaven beclouds and bewilders
Last Line: Just look at him yelling at the wall, %writing out 'questions to heaven'
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Heaven


DON'T PLANT TREES, by LI HE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't plant trees in the garden
Last Line: This autumn like autumns past
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Trees


DOWN AND OUT DRUNK; WRITTEN ON LEAVING JING-KOU, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The clouds were thin, the moon was faint
Last Line: But I am always setting off %to go farther on southeast
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Exiles


DRAGOL POOL, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At dragon pool he offers wine
Last Line: The prince of xue is reeling drunk, %the prince of shou is sober
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Xuan-zong, Emperor Of China; Yang Yu-huan (prized Consort)


DRAWING WATER FROM THE WELL AND MAKING TEA, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I get up sick, done looking at my books
Last Line: And I can't bear to step on sparse shadows of plums
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Wells


DREAM, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the sung dynasty
Last Line: The waterfall stopped.
Subject(s): China; Dreams; Love Affairs; Tatars; Nightmares; Tartars


DREAM GARDEN, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: We slip into a dream
Last Line: Cold blood gleaming %from its mouth
Subject(s): China - Democracy


DREAM OF HEAVEN, by LI HE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aged hare, the wintry toad
Last Line: The clear depth of the ocean %spilled from a cup
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


DREAM OF THE SOUTHLAND, by HUANG-FU SONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oil, scented with orchid, burns down in the lamp
Last Line: By the way station
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


DREAMING OF A DEAD LADY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I heard at night your long sighs
Last Line: How the tears fell surging over my breast
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.);mourning; Bereavement


DREAMING OF A FRIEND ONE NIGHT, by HUANG JING-REN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am in halves: half here far from home
Last Line: Through the open curtains the hazy blur %of the long road to be traveled
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Friendship


DREAMING OF YUAN CHEN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At night you came and took my hand and we wandered together in my dream
Last Line: Among the shadows of the terrace of night did you know them or not?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares


DRINKING ALONE BY MOONLIGHT, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here among flowers one flask of wine
Last Line: Let us join to roam beyond human cares %and plan to meet far in the river of stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Drinks And Drinking


DRINKING AT NIGHT IN YUCHOU, by CHANG YUEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cold wind fills the night with rain
Last Line: How could I know the extent of grace
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


DRINKING ON THE LAKE AS IT CLEARS THEN RAINS, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shimmering waves are translucent when it clears
Last Line: Equally lovely in powder or paint
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


DRINKING POEM V, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have built my house in the realm of men
Last Line: The heart of truth lies in such things. %I try to explain...The words are gone already
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


DRINKING WINE, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I built my hut near people
Last Line: But it dies on the tongue when I try to speak
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Truth


DRINKING WINE 16, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was a youth
Last Line: My feelings, %here
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


DRINKING WINE ON GRAVE SWEEPING DAY, by KAO CHU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hillsides north and south are overrun with graves
Last Line: No drop has ever reached the ninefold springs below
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


DRINKING WINE: 001, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unsettled, a bird lost from the flock
Last Line: In a thousand years it will not depart
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


DRINKING WINE: 002, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old friends know what I like
Last Line: In wine, there is a heady taste
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


DRINKING WINE: 003, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A green pine grows in eastern garden
Last Line: Why should I tie myself to this worldy bondage?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


DRINKING WINE: 004, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn chrysanthemums have beautiful color
Last Line: I've found againg the meaning of life
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


DRINKING WINE: 1, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Prosperity and decline have no fixed dwelling
Last Line: Suddenly in find I have a cask of wine; %each day at evening I tip it with joy
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


DRINKING WINE: 3, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The way's been lost for a thousand years
Last Line: With your hundred years slipping slipping away, %what do you hope to do with a thing like that?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Time


DRINKING WINE: 5, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I built my hut in a place where people live
Last Line: In all this there's some principle of truth, %but try to define it and you forget the words
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Truth


DRINKING WINE: 5, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I built a cottage right in the realm of men
Last Line: There is some significance here: %I want to expound it but have lost the words
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


DRINKING WINE: 7, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fall chrysanthemums have beautiful colors
Last Line: And I whistle jauntily by the eastern eaves - %another day I get to live this life
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


DRUNK IN AN AGE OF PEACE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Glorious is our mighty yuan!
Last Line: Good men are confused with fools, %a sad state indeed
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341)


DRUNKEN LORD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hound is barking at the gate
Last Line: It's still better than sleeping alone
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Homecoming


DRUNKEN LORD, by XUE ZHAO-YUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Languidly binding her dark strands of hair
Last Line: And asks me all sorts of silly things
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


DRUNKEN LORD, by YIN E    Poem Source                    
First Line: Evening mist veils the mossy pavements
Last Line: Fresh upon his clothes
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


DURING A BIG RAINSTORM ON THE FOURTH OF NOVEMBER, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Resting quietly in bed in a lonesome village
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


DURING AN INTERCALARY AUGUST AFTER THE 'ARRIVAL OF AUTUMN' IT WAS HOT, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I made it to the top of the wall
Last Line: For the longest time one leaf alone %did not stop
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Zen Buddhism


DWELLING IN PEACE ON THE DOUBLE NINTH, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was dwelling in peace and loved the name 'double ninth.'
Last Line: The quiet life has indeed many joys, %there is something achieved in just lingering on
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Chrysanthemums; Flowers; Life


EARLY AUTUMN, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the fiery clouds have quenched their fearsome peaks
Last Line: But late at night I scratch my head and sigh at my thin hair
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


EARLY COLD ON THE RIVER: SOMETHING ON MY MIND, by MENG HAO-JAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trees shed their leaves, the geese cross south
Last Line: Having missed the fork, if you should ask - %level lake and vast floods in the evening
Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Nature


EARLY IN THE DAWN AFTER AN AUTUMN NIGHT I WALKED, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


EARLY MIGRATING GEESE, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mid-autumn by golden river
Last Line: Sesame seeds fill the waters, %and the shores are rich in moss
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Geese; Migration


EARLY SPRING, by PAI YU-CH'AN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As soon as a southern branch unveils its first buds
Last Line: Darker on the water lighter on the sand
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


EARLY SPRING EAST OF TOWN, by YANG CHU-YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The best time for a poet is when spring is new
Last Line: The whole town [or, everyone] will be out gawking at flowers
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Poetry And Poets; Spring


EASE, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lined coat, warm cap and easy felt slippers
Last Line: I wonder if the courtiers at the western capital know of these things, or not?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Comfort; Retirement


EAST GATE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He went out east gate
Last Line: I cannot stay here forever!
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Farewell


EAST OF PING-LING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: East of ping-ling, the royal tomb
Last Line: I go home and tell the kin %that the brown calf was be sold
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Kidnapping


EAST SLOPE, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rains have bathed the eastern shore
Last Line: Of my staff as it drags along
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


EATING BAMBOO SHOOTS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This province is truly a land of bamboo
Last Line: Eat while you can, don't hestitate, %soon south winds will blow them into bamboo
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Bamboo; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Food And Eating; Vegetarians


EATING BAMBOO-SHOOTS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My new province is a land of bamboo-groves
Last Line: For each breath of the south-wind makes a new bamboo!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Bamboo; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Food & Eating


EGRETS, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Garments of snow, tresses of snow
Last Line: Shed in the evening breeze
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Egrets


EIGHT EXTREMES, by LI YE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is closest and farthest apart?
Last Line: A man and wife
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Marriage


EIGHT POEMS ON EASTERN SLOPE: 1, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An abandoned fort for which no one cared
Last Line: But of a bucket of water I am assured
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Farm Life


ELEGIES FOR THE OCHER DEER ON THE WALLS AT LASCAUX, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are hearing a distant, almost familiar, french cradlesong
Last Line: A white baton flew up!
Subject(s): Caves; China; Clergy; Deer; France; Lament; Caverns; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


ELEGY, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A widow offers her broken tears to an ideal
Last Line: Our bed adrift on morning's river
Subject(s): China - Democracy


ELEGY ON ANOTHER'S BEHALF, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The young peach I glimpsed calls to mind her jade beauty
Last Line: But there is no way to end my regretful thoughts
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ENCOUNTER, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Can you imagine that I, a landlord's son
Last Line: My feet, entangled with the sedge roots, %sinking deep into the oozy mud
Subject(s): Family Life - China


ENCOUNTERING A WOUNDED SOLDIER, by LU LUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When he travels he often suffers from wounds
Last Line: Touches the scars of the blade
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Soldiers; War


ENCOUNTERING RAIN AT CHANGPA RESERVOIR ONE EVENING WHILE ENJOYING..., by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunset is just right for boating
Last Line: Surely the rain will bring poems
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ENCOUNTERING RAIN AT CHANGPA RESERVOIR ONE EVENING WHILE ENJOYING..., by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain drenches the mats
Last Line: On a fall day in may at the lake
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


END OF SPRING, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thatched cottage of several rooms
Last Line: And I almost forgot where I am
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Spring


END OF SPRING: ON MY NEWLY RENTED THATCHED COTTAGE AT RANG-XI III, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clouds brightly colored, now shadowed, now white
Last Line: As river gibbons hum on the azure cliffs
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Spring


END OR A BEGINNING, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I stand
Last Line: Black crows the night's tatters %flock thick around
Subject(s): China


ENJOYING RAIN ON A SPRING NIGHT, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A good rain knows its season
Last Line: At daybreak look where the red is soaked, %the blossoms are heavy in brocade city
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Rain


EPIGRAM ON THE CHINESE TREATY, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our wars are ended - foreign battles cease
Last Line: "still ""mistress of herself though china fall!"
Subject(s): China; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Peace


ERINNERUNG, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the door of my thatched hut
Last Line: Sounds like the rustle of brocaded silk
Subject(s): China; Gingko Trees; Wind


ERINNERUNG, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the door of my thatched hut
Last Line: Sounds like the rustle of brocaded silk
Subject(s): China; Gingko Trees; Wind


ESCAPING THE FIGHTING: 5, by WU WEI-YEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moon came out, the village ahead turned white
Last Line: Wearing hemp sandals and used to flight, %on hard times fallen, a simple common man
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


ESCAPING THE FIGHTING: 6, by WU WEI-YEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Marauders came when I rose at dawn
Last Line: Go show the enemy your daring -- %don't use it to frighten folks like us
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


ETERNAL CHINA, by THOMAS CASEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flames are dying at the dragon's mouth
Last Line: And drum -- advancing on the truth of life.
Subject(s): China


EVENING BELLS IN A MISTY TEMPLE, by MA CHIH-YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chilly mist hangs thin
Last Line: It will not let the aging monk remain %deep in his meditation
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341)


EVENING SUNSHINE IN A FISHING VILLAGE, by MA CHIH-YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rapping of mallets ends
Last Line: All are snatched up within %this picture of catching fish
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341); Fishing And Fishermen


EVENTS OF LATE SPRING, by YEH TS'AI    Poem Source                    
First Line: House swallows swoop in pairs above my desk
Last Line: I wonder how long spring has been over
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


EVIL AIR, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jiang qing one of the gang
Variant Title(s): Sentences For Jiang Qing: 1. China's Last Lad
Subject(s): China; Jiang Qing (madame Mao)


EXCURSION ON LAKE DONG-TING: 4, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: West I gaze from lake dont-ting
Last Line: And there in bright colors painted %is the mountain of the lady
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Lakes


EXPRESSING WHAT WAS ON MY MIND, by XIN QIJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was drunk and craved some pleasure and fun
Last Line: I shoved the pine and said to it, 'scram'
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


EXTREMELY SHORT HISTORY OF CHINA, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suffering, suffering, squalor, suffering, flood, suffering, suffering, really
Last Line: And then corruption, disaster, war, and flood, drought, and more suffering
Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R.
Subject(s): China; Pain


FAIRY TALES; FOR GU CHENG, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You believed in your own story
Last Line: The world may be tiny %but the heart's enormous
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): China - Democracy


FALL OF CH'OU, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jade pendants chime before the dawn audience
Last Line: Tow hearts singing like chiming jade
Subject(s): China; Nature


FALLEN LEAVES, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon sets, a sliver of ice
Last Line: For the start of a new green dream %to begin the cycle again
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): China - Democracy


FALLEN TREE, by JIANG SHIWEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the branches of a fallen tress
Last Line: I can see its skelton on the ground
Subject(s): China - Democracy


FALLING FLOWERS, by CHU SHU-CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whenever interwined branches bloom
Last Line: They wouldn't end up scattered across the moss
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


FAR ROAMING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I deplored the world's ways, they hampered and hemmed me
Last Line: I passed beyond non-acting, I reached to the clear, %the very beginning became my neighbor
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


FAREWELL FOR MR. LI, BUREAU DIRECTOR, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A phoenix leaves his mate as wutong-blossoms fall
Last Line: Half his lyrics are mixed with elegies
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell


FARM FAMILY, by FAN CH'ENG-TA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weeding fields at sunup twisting hemp at night
Last Line: Learn to plant melons in the shade of mulberry trees
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


FARM HOME BY CU-LAI MOUNTAIN, by WANG SHIH-CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On I go through empty azure mist
Last Line: Nor will I be slow to plow my own
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Farm Life


FARMING HOMES BY WEI RIVER, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: The setting light falls on a hamlet
Last Line: At this moment I yearn for freedom and ease, %and, downcast, I sing 'hard straits!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farm Life


FASTING, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Banners - flags - flying - spreading
Last Line: The ship of state pitches and rolls
Subject(s): China


FEELING SAD FOR THE FARMERS, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rice field looks like a rack of clouds
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


FESTIVAL DAY, by WANG CHIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fields below gooselake mountain are ready
Last Line: Families all help their drunken men home
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


FIGHTING SOUTH OF THE CASTLE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They fought south of the castle
Last Line: And at night you did not return
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);courts & Courtiers;fights;soldiers


FISHERMAN ON THE RIVER, by FAN ZHONGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: People by the river
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


FISHERMAN'S LYRICS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind the embroidered curtains
Last Line: It's obvious you have betrayed me
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Unfaithfulness


FIVE SONGS OF CHINA: 3. CHINESE SONG IN TWO VOICES, by NICOLAS GUILLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To china I would like to go
Last Line: Among the lotus, a tractor at last
Subject(s): China


FIVE SONGS OF CHINA: 4. FIRST OF OCTOBER, by NICOLAS GUILLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ancient chinas, I repeat
Last Line: Nectar of the lotus is drunk %by butterflies of tempered steel
Subject(s): China


FIVE SONGS OF CHINA: 5. SONG OF RETURN, by NICOLAS GUILLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is clear to you
Last Line: The land of rice and of bamboo
Subject(s): China


FLOOD, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lingering clouds, rolling, rolling
Last Line: But neither boat nor carriage comes.
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Floods


FLOWER GARLAND SONG, by SHAO YUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flowers on my head shine in my cap
Last Line: How can I face them and not go home drunk
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


FLOWER SHADOWS, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Layer upon layer on the alabaster terrace
Last Line: The full moon brings them back again
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


FLOWERS AND MOONLIGHT ON THE SPRING RIVER, by YANG-TI    Poem Text                    
First Line: The evening river is level and motionless
Last Line: And the tidal water comes with its freight of stars.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yang-di
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Rivers


FLYING LIGHT, by LI HO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flying light, flying light-
Last Line: Wasting all that abalone
Subject(s): China; Death


FOLLOWING THE RHYME WORDS OF A POEM WRITTEN BY MY NEW NEIGHBOR, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your single poem came, and I chanted it a hundred times
Last Line: So don't pour out shuye's excellent wine alone
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Drinks And Drinking


FOLLOWING THE RHYMES OF HUANG DA-LIN'S 'SENT TO SU CHE', by HUANG CHING-JEN+(1)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Half a lifetime's fellows and friends
Last Line: With days and months hastening %a forehead filled with snow
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


FOOTBINDING, by PATRICIA BEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmother had a small shelf of books
Last Line: An aim the missionaries did not mention
Subject(s): China; Footbinding; Missionaries And Missions


FOR CENSOR CHENG ON BEING BANISHED TO FUKIEN, by KAO SHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go into exile but bear no grudge
Last Line: Go but watch out for the wind and waves
Alternate Author Name(s): Ta-fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


FOR GENTLEMAN-IN-ATTENDANCE KAO, by KAO CH'AN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The green peach of heaven thrives in the dew
Last Line: Does't blame the east wind for not blooming sooner
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


FOR HERMIT CHU, MY NEIGHBOR TO THE SOUTH, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mister chin village with his blackhorned bandanna
Last Line: He sees me to his gate when the moon is new
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


FOR HIDDEN MIST PAVILION, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring flowers and autumn moon enter poems
Last Line: Long ago, I moved my couch to face the mountain
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


FOR LIU CHING-WEN, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lotuses are gone and their rainproof umbrellas
Last Line: Is when oranges are yellow and tangerines are green
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


FOR MY NEPHEW, HSIANG, ON MY DEMOTION AND ARRIVAL AT LANKUAN PASS, by HAN YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: I submitted a memorial to the palace at dawn
Last Line: No doubt to collect my bones from some infested river
Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


FOR MY SONS, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dying now, I know full well
Last Line: Forget not in our family rites %to let this old man know
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Death


FOR PLAY, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wild chrysanthemums and moss
Last Line: And purchase him no fields
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


FOREVER PARTED: 1. A LABYRINTH OF BYWAYS, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A labyrinth of byways %brought me here
Last Line: Marks worth puzzling over
Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Graves


FOREVER PARTED: 2. THE CLOUDS OF GEYUE SHAN, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The clouds of geyue shan %are cold
Last Line: Through the dusk %toward the shore
Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Graves


FOREVER PARTED: 3. I DON'T HAVE A BROTHER, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't have an older brother
Last Line: I don't know him, %a man, only
Subject(s): China - Red Guards


FOREVER PARTED: 4. YOU LIVED AMONG THE PEAKS, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: You lived among the peaks
Last Line: A game where you could always start all over
Subject(s): China - Red Guards


FOREVER PARTED: 5. DO NOT INTERROGATE THE SUN, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't question the sun
Last Line: For the birds that have left to return
Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Graves


FOREVER PARTED: 6. YES, I GO ALSO, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yes, I am going as well
Last Line: Beneath the new young green of spring
Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Graves


FOREVER PARTED: INTRODUCTION, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: No sign that anyone has been here
Last Line: I say ...
Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Graves


FRAGRANCE FILLS THE YARD, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hollow glories won on a snail's horn
Last Line: And a song: 'fragrance fills the yard'
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


FRAGRANCE FROM SOMEWHERE UNSEEN, by JIANG KUI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moon's hue of days gobe by
Last Line: Never again to be seen
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Plums; Smells


FREE-SPIRITED FISHERMAN, by LI CH'ING-CHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Billowing clouds touch sky and reach
Last Line: Let it blow this tiny boat away %to the three immortal isles
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


FROG AND I, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: He sat on a lotus leaf
Last Line: Into the sleeping pond
Subject(s): Family Life - China


FROM A LONG WAY OUT OF PAH-GATZIN-KAY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With all those I love
Last Line: I hold myself in my own arms like a dead friend
Subject(s): China; Travel; Weariness; Journeys; Trips; Fatigue


FROM A VISION, by TS'AO CHIH    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the nine provinces there is not room enough
Last Line: My span is extended to the enjoyment of life everlasting.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-chien
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Life


FROM CHINA, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought: / the moon
Subject(s): China


FROM DEATH'S POINT OF VIEW, by LI SHIZHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Looking from death's point of view
Last Line: Those screams that freeze your spine
Subject(s): China - Democracy


FROM SPRING TO AUTUMN OF 1827 SOME THINGS CAME TO ME ...: 15, by GONG ZI-ZHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I once wrote a poem swearing off poems
Last Line: This year I truly swear off poems -- %the problem is not that my talent is gone
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Poetry And Poets; Zen Buddhism


FROST AND MOON, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When first I heard the migrating geese
Last Line: A contest of beauty and grace
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


FROST AND THE MOON, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the time I hear geese the cicadas are gone
Last Line: In the frost and moonlight they contest each other's charms
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


FU-CHUN ISLE, by XIE LING-YUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: By night we passed over fisherman's deeps
Last Line: Now my concerns are unfurled in light, %all things beyond me pointlessly stretch and shrink back
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Nature


FULL MOON SHINES ON, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Attend you with gifts of joy
Subject(s): China; Holidays; New Year; Time


GALLANT, by CHOU PANG-YEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A new green in the tiny pond
Last Line: From letting us meet just a little while!
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


GALLERY, by LI SHIZHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fog creeps blindly onward, pulling out of the station
Last Line: Like a sleigh %across a wound
Subject(s): China - Democracy


GARDENS, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is half-past three: white mourning
Last Line: A theme of reverie and enigma
Subject(s): China; Gardens And Gardening; Landscape; Stones


GAZING ACROSS THE COUNTRYSIDE, by WANG CHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Watching dusk fade at tungkao
Last Line: I sing about gathering ferns
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kung; Wang Ch'i
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


GAZING AT THE VALLEY OF CH'IN, by LI CH'I    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gazing at the valley of ch'in at dawn
Last Line: The frost and dew are so thick
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


GAZING FROM A BOAT IN THE EARLY MORNING, by MENG HAO-JAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We set our sails and gazed southeast
Last Line: I look now on morning's colored clouds %and they seem the crest of redwall mountain
Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Morning; Nature


GAZING IN THE EVENING NORTH OF MY COTTAGE, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Red trees and green forests
Last Line: And fall in ten thousand valleys
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


GAZING ON HUA-QING PALACE AT DAYBREAK, by WANG JIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At daybreak those mansions and towers
Last Line: And names it 'lasting life'
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Xuan-zong, Emperor Of China; Yang Yu-huan (prized Consort)


GETTING OUT WHAT I FEEL, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I face my wine, unaware of darkness growing
Last Line: The birds turn back, men too grow fewer
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Drinks And Drinking


GETTING SOMETHING OFF MY MIND, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Footloose and lost on the rivers and lakes
Last Line: I had won only fame for careless love %in its blue mansions
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Yang-zhou (city), China


GETTING UP AT NIGHT IN A BOAT, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the rustling of a faint breeze
Last Line: Again shouting each to the other
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Happiness


GHOSTS WALK UPON THEIR GRAVES, by NEAL GALLATIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: No longer does the war god beat
Last Line: Ghosts sit upon their graves and wait.
Subject(s): China; Ethiopia; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); War


GIFTS, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My dream is the dream of a pond
Last Line: Because all that I am %has been a gift from earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): China - Democracy


GIVEN THE WORD FOREST BY HIS MAJESTY AT THE LICHENG PALACE LIBRARY.., by CHANG YUEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the east wing's halls of maps and texts
Last Line: Exhaust our hearts for the one who knows them
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


GLOBEFISH, by CHU TA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A fine rain drizzles and drizzles
Last Line: Are swallowed upside-down
Subject(s): China; Fishing And Fishermen


GODDESS, by SONG YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The time was past twilight
Last Line: I shed tears in my wretchedness %and kept seeking her until the dawn
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


GODDESS OF THE LUO, by CAO ZHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was on my return from the capital
Last Line: Then I pull up the reins and set by my whip, %I hung in there in sorrow, I could not go on
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


GODS ON THE MAGPIE BRIDGE, by QIN GUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fine wisps of cloud sport their craft
Last Line: It does not need to be done %every night and every morning at dawn
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing; Night


GOING FROM LUO-YANG TO YUE, by MENG HAO-JAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Restless and troubled for thirty years now
Last Line: I will find brief joy in that thing in the cup, %and think no more of my name in the world
Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Nature; Wanderers And Wandering


GOING HOME TO VISIT CENSOR WANG ON MY DAY OFF AND NOT FINDING HIM HOME, by WEI YING-WU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nine days of hustle and bustle
Last Line: And snow was filling the hills
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests


GOING OUT EARLY AND MEETING AN OLD LOVE, I GIVE THIS TO HER ..., by SHEN YUEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Traces of rouge yet darken your skin
Last Line: That this morning you make your way home in the dew?
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


GOING OUT ON THE LE-YOU PLAIN, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under vast skies, limpid and clear
Last Line: Where rise the autumn winds
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


GOING TO THE MOUNTAINS WITH A LITTLE DANCING GIRL, AGED FIFTEEN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two top-knots not yet plaited into one
Last Line: When there's no one here with a heart for you to break!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Love - Age Differences


GOING TO THE PALACE LIBRARY EARLY IN THE MORNING, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I rushed toward my office, lantern in hand
Last Line: Then the golden crow flew up into the sky %and spewed forth a red dragon's scales
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


GOLDEN BELLS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was almost forty
Last Line: Must now be postponed for fifteen years!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Fathers & Daughters


GOLDEN EAGLE AND I, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamed of rescuing a golden eagle
Last Line: Down this city pit of haikou
Subject(s): Family Life - China


GRAIN IS RIPE, by KONG PING-ZHONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The millet smells sweet in the west wind
Last Line: It rests in the setting sun
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Harvest


GRAND, by CAO PI    Poem Source                    
First Line: This morning let there be joy upon joy
Last Line: Calm and indifferent, they find nature's state, %what are glory and splendor to them?
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Moderation


GRAND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hard times wait in days to come
Last Line: Just hitch six dragons to your coach %and frolic at the edge of clouds
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts


GRANDFATHER, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since you're awake, why not chant that poem
Last Line: Where you chant your cavern poem over and over
Subject(s): Family Life - China


GRAVE SWEEPING DAY, by TU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: On grave sweeping day the rain pours down
Last Line: A herdboy points off to apricot blossom village
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


GRAVEYARD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whose yard is it, the graveyard?
Last Line: Man's doom doesn't waver a moment
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Funerals; Graves


GREAT ONE, by SI-MA XIANG-RU    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a great one in his age
Last Line: And I rode on that blankness - I passed far above, %beyond lack of others - iendured alone
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Wu, Emperor (140-87 B.c.)


GREAT WALL, by CHU CH'ING-YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ch'in emperor guarded the land against tartar foes
Last Line: Still weep in the wind and sandstorm
Subject(s): Great Wall, China


GREAT WALL, by THOMAS MEYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The qin dynasty was one of the shortest (255-204 b.C.) fifty years
Last Line: But during it china was united into a kingdom and the great wall %was built
Subject(s): Great Wall, China


GULANGYU, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drum wave island'
Last Line: I'm with my wife on gulangyu
Subject(s): China


HAINAN NIGHT, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old verses surprising me by a banyan tree
Last Line: Not su dongpo in his tomb by the south china sea
Subject(s): Family Life - China


HALF, by GUAN HAN-QING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cloudy coils of hair and hazy tresses
Last Line: And half of you is teasing
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341)


HALL OF DRUNKEN INK, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All worry and woe in life begins
Last Line: And use it to stuff a quilt
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): Calligraphy; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


HALT ON THE CANAL, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now, -- passing the place where old men and women congregate
Last Line: Dim earth of the fields of colzas shine like blows of light
Subject(s): Canals; China; Cities


HANDS OFF CHINA, by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: War %daughter of imperialism
Alternate Author Name(s): Mayacovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Subject(s): China


HANGING BRANCH SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late at night my lover comes home
Last Line: Beats lying in bed alone
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Solitude


HANGING COFFINS, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside the witch-mountain gorges
Last Line: Bleached bones in the mockeries of the river wind
Subject(s): Family Life - China


HARD TRAVELING: 2, by PAO CHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A luo-yang craftsman of renown
Last Line: Long I'll sigh facing this %all the years of my life
Alternate Author Name(s): Ming-yuan; Bao Zhao
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Landscape


HARD TRAVELING: 4, by PAO CHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spill water out on level ground
Last Line: I waver, swallow back my voice, %and dare not speak a sound
Alternate Author Name(s): Ming-yuan; Bao Zhao
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Landscape


HARD TRAVELING: 6, by PAO CHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I face the table, I cannot eat
Last Line: Which is even more for those life me %upright and alone
Alternate Author Name(s): Ming-yuan; Bao Zhao
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


HAVING CLIMBED TO THE TOPMOST PEAK OF THE INCENSE-BURNER MOUNTAIN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up and up, the incense-burner peak!
Last Line: Then, with lowered head, came back to the ants' nest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountain Climbing; Nature; Retirement


HEADSTRONG BOY, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I guess my mother spoiled me
Last Line: And let them drift away, %hunting for butterflies
Subject(s): China - Democracy; Drawing


HEARING A FLUTE, by CHAO KU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whose flute is that in the painted tower
Last Line: And the notes continue to float in the air
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


HEAVEN, by CATHY SONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He thinks when we die we'll go to china
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; China; Heritage; Heredity


HEAVEN, by CATHY SONG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He thinks when we die we'll go to china
Last Line: The work shirts fluttering like sails, %you can see all the way to heaven
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; China


HEAVEN ABOVE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: By heaven above
Last Line: I'll stop loving you
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fidelity


HELPED HOME DRUNK, by WANG HE-QING    Poem Source                    
First Line: My lips were squeezed against her
Last Line: Her ivory comb's backside
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341); Erotic Love


HENGTANG, by FAN CH'ENG-TA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring comes once more
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


HERDBOY, by LU TUNG PIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across the countryside grass spreads for miles
Last Line: And lie in the moonlight still wearing my raincoat
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


HOME TO GARDEN AND FIELD V, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upset, then sad, my single cane returns
Last Line: Delight comes. How sad the night is brief; %already, dawn has reached the sky again
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


HONG, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hong we brought from far off china
Last Line: In his heart was only love.
Subject(s): Animals; China; Dogs


HOW I BECAME A DAOIST MONK, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I made my way to china
Last Line: I'm the only one
Subject(s): China


HOW I GOT MY CHINESE NAME, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My chinese friend, shen nan, gave it to me. Here's how
Last Line: Exotic'...As my mood moves me. Thanks to shen nan
Subject(s): China


HOW I SAILED ON THE LAKE TILL I CAME TO THE EASTERN STREAM, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of spring water, - thirty or forty miles
Last Line: And staggers up the bank to pluck wistaria flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails


HOW PLUM FLOWERS EMBARRASS A GARDEN, by LIN PU    Poem Source                    
First Line: When everything has faded they alone shine forth
Last Line: I don't need a sounding board or winecup
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


HUNGRY GHOSTS, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the men I've ever been
Last Line: I always feed them
Subject(s): China


I CHANCED ON RAIN AT WANG-KOU AND RECALLED MOUNT ZHONG-NAN, by PEI DI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rains dense and flooding, cold currents broaden
Last Line: But where now is mount zhong-nan?
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mount Zhong-nan, China; Rain


I RETURN TO THE PLACE I WAS BORN, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From my youth up I never liked the city
Last Line: At last I have found myself
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


I RIDE THE COACH WITH POLISHED SIDES, by SU XIAO-XIAO    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Under pine and cypress of western mound
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


I TRIED TO CLIMB ZHAO-CHENG TOWER ..., by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wanted to climb that thousand-step tower
Last Line: Words from the earth and this speck of a man's heart - %how could high heaven even hear them?
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Climbing; Heaven


I WATERED MY HORSE AT A SPRING BY THE WALL, by CH'EN LIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And I don't think I'll be long for life
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


I WROTE THIS ON THE TOWER BY THE WATER AT THE KAI-YUAN TEMPLE, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fine artifacts of the six dynasties
Last Line: Misty trees here and there %to the east of five lakes
Subject(s): China - Southern Dynasties; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


IDEOGRAPHS, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The small scaffolds, boards in the form of
Subject(s): China; Photography & Photographers; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers


ILLNESS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad, sad - lean with long illness
Last Line: Deep down still aches as of old!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sickness; Illness


IMAGE, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky is grey
Last Line: And one light green
Subject(s): China - Democracy


IMITATING THE OLD POEMS, NO. 4, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tall tall, the hundred foot tower
Last Line: Wealth and glory - no doubt, worth prizing; %at the same time, a cause for sorrow and pain
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


IMMORTAL BY THE RIVER, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the willows soft thunder
Last Line: And beside them, a fallen hairpin
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


IMMORTAL BY THE RIVER, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was drinking that night on eastern slope
Last Line: On river and lakes lodge the rest of my days
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


IMMORTAL IN HEAVEN, by WEI ZHUANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: He comes home late always staggering drunk
Last Line: How long does a man's life last?
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


IMPERIAL ENTOURAGE ON THE ROAD FROM TENGFENG, by SUNG CHIH-WEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A palace of brocade adorns the great peak
Last Line: Alas I lack the skill to dazzle heaven
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


IMPRESSIONS, by CHU SHU-CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swaying bamboo shadows shade my secluded window
Last Line: The enervating days are starting to get longer
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


IN BED, by ZHAO YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lying in bed I thought of a poem
Last Line: When the youngsters are at their studies %they're not so caught up as this?
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Poetry And Poets


IN JIN-LING: A SECOND SERIES ON WATCHING A CHESS GAME: 1, by CH'IEN CH'IEN-YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Still and somber, a bare chessboard
Last Line: I see the southern dynasties
Subject(s): Chess; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); China - Southern Dynasties; Nanking, China


IN PRAISE OF HUACHING PALACE, by TU CH'ANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A journey of dozens of stages from the southland ends
Last Line: Entering the tall willows it sounds like rain
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


IN PRAISE OF POOR SCHOLARS, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All creatures, each has a home
Last Line: That's it then. Why complain?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


IN REPLY, by T'AI SHANG YING-CHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somehow I ended up beneath pines
Last Line: Winter ends but who counts the years
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


IN REPLY TO LI HUAN, by WEI YING-WU    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stopped reading the yiching in the woods
Last Line: To whom do you most often turn
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


IN REPLY TO LI TAN, by WEI YING-WU    Poem Source                    
First Line: We parted last year among flowers
Last Line: How many moons have I watched from west tower
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


IN REPLY TO THE PREFECT OF WULING, by WANG CH'ANG-LING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Still clutching my sword after a long journey
Last Line: Never forgets such kindness
Alternate Author Name(s): Wang Chang-ling
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


IN REPLY TO TING YUAN-CHEN, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring wind I guess doesn't reach this side of heaven
Last Line: Why should I care if country plants bloom late
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


IN THE MOON LIGHT, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moonlight white, the yard is bare
Last Line: And letting dew soak his clothes
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Self-consciousness


IN THE RAIN, SPENDING THE NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY ..., by MEI YAO-CH'EN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hard rain rang as it dashed on the window
Last Line: My eye was irritated by a dust speck
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Insomnia; Rain


IN THE YEAR WITH THE CYCLICAL SIGN MOU-SHEN .. WE HAD A FIRE, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a grass hut lodged at the end of the narrow lane
Last Line: But I haven't chanced on times like those, %so meanwhile let me water my garden
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


IN YUEH VIEWING THE PAST, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kou-chien, king of yueh, came back from the broken land of wu
Last Line: Ladies in waiting like flowers filled his spring palace %where now only the partridges fly
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Kou-chien, King Of Yueh, China


INCIDENT ON LAN LI LAKE, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who is the fellow, sallow, skinny, perhaps a fisherman
Last Line: Go now, poor birdie. Never come back this way. Never!'
Subject(s): Family Life - China


INFORMAL COMPOSITION, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come not too close to the sharp sword
Last Line: Love's troubles are not in numbers: %just one evening scars the soul
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Love - Complaints


INN AT THE ROADSIDE, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: This road leading from town
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


INSCRIBED ON MIST-HIDDEN PAVILION, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring flowers and autumn moon enter my poems
Last Line: I've moved my couch for good so that I can sleep facing the mountains
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


INSIDE DONGPO ACADEMY, HAINAN ISLAND, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside dongpo academy, I'm surprised to see
Last Line: Hermetic hollow, while the wind feels you the night through
Subject(s): Family Life - China


INSPIRED, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heartbreaking flood of spring is nearly over
Last Line: Peach petals float diaphanous in the current
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


INSPIRED, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Willow fuzz lines the path with bolts of white felt
Last Line: Ducklings on the shore sleep beside their mother
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


INTELLECTUALS IN CHINA, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The china the students in tiananmen square during
Last Line: Like carrying night-soil to the fields, in a may seventh %cadre school
Subject(s): China


INVITING GUESTS, by CH'ENG-KUNG SUI    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sent out invitations
Last Line: By discharge of emotion!
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Guests; Visiting


IT LET UP AND THEN RAINED AGAIN, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The light sparkling on the waves
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


IT WAS A FINE FEAST, JOY SUDDENLY LEFT, by CH'EN LIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Lost in sad thought I forgot to turn home, %and tears fell with sighs and soaked my robes
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Grief


IT'S NO NOVELTY, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's no novelty to see
Last Line: And evaporating with a rush of english cloud
Subject(s): Family Life - China


JADE TERRACE TEMPLE, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The palatial steps were built by a king
Last Line: Often passing the peak to the north
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


JAPAN, -- OLD AND NEW, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The son of a japanese lord am I
Last Line: That foreigners brought japan.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; China; Japan; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Soul; Japanese


JIANG VILLAGE: 2, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From west of the towering ochre clouds
Last Line: The song ended, I looked to heaven and sighed, %and everyone present shed streaming tears
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


JIU GE (NINE SONGS) 1. THE GREAT UNITY, GOD OF THE EASTERN SKY, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a lucky day with an auspicious name
Last Line: And the god is merry and takes his pleasure
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


JIU GE (NINE SONGS) 10. HYMN TO THE FALLEN, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grasping our great shields and wearing our hide armour
Last Line: Heroes among the shades their valiant souls will be
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


JIU GE (NINE SONGS) 11. HONOURING THE DEAD, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rites are accomplished to the beating of the drums
Last Line: So it shall go on until the end of time
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


JIU GE (NINE SONGS) 2. THE LORD WITHIN THE CLOUDS, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have bathed in orchid water and washed our hair with
Last Line: And afflicts my heart with a grievous longing
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


JIU GE (NINE SONGS) 3. THE GODDESS OF THE XIANG, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The goddess comes not, she holds back shyly
Last Line: I wish I could play here a little longer
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


JIU GE (NINE SONGS) 4. THE LADY OF THE XIANG, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The child of god, descending the northern bank
Last Line: I wish I could play here a little longer
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


JIU GE (NINE SONGS) 5. THE GREATER MASTER OF FATE, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Open wide the door of heaven
Last Line: Its meeting and partings not his to arrange
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


JIU GE (NINE SONGS) 6. THE LESSER MASTER OF FATE, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The autumn orchid and the deer-parsley
Last Line: You only, fragrant one, are worthy to be judge over men
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


JIU GE (NINE SONGS) 7. THE LORD OF THE EAST, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With a faint flush I start to come out of the east
Last Line: On my gloomy night journey back to the east
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


JIU GE (NINE SONGS) 8. THE RIVER EARL, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wander with you by the nine mouths of the river
Last Line: And shoals of fishes are my bridal train
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


JIU GE (NINE SONGS) 9. THE MOUNTAIN SPIRIT, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There seems to be someone in the fold of the mountain
Last Line: I think of my lady and stand alone in sadness
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


JOY AT MIDNIGHT, by LIU YONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A solid mass of cloud
Last Line: In the long skies of evening
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


JUST BEFORE THE MID-MARCH FESTIVAL, I HEARD THAT MY FATHER WAS ILL, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Along the highway at tong-jiang
Last Line: For three hundred copper coins %you could buy a single spray
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


K'U-KIANG, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because the sun like a chinese lantern
Last Line: Set in a temple of clouds.
Subject(s): China; Grief; Temples; Sorrow; Sadness; Mosques


KEPT WAITING IN THE BOAT AT CHIU-K'OU TEN DAYS BY AN ADVERSE WIND, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White billows and huge waves block the river crossing
Last Line: While I sit in a boat at chiu-k'ou, wasting ten days!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Waiting


KING OF QIN DRINKING, by LI HE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The king of qin rode his tiger
Last Line: The clear harp's notes, his drunken eyes, %tears like a deep, clear spring
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Drinks And Drinking


KUANYIN'S FLASK, by HELEN BURWELL CHAPIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The fire has long since cooled
Last Line: The nectar of immortality.
Subject(s): Buddhism; China; Kuan Yin (goddess); Buddha; Buddhists


LAMENT, by LIU CHI-HSUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My family married me off
Last Line: Floating home again!
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Homesickness


LAMENT BY THE RIVER, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Am old man, a countryman from shao-ling
Last Line: I am on my way to south of the city %but turn and gaze to the north
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


LAMENT FOR CHEN-TAO, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In winter's first month, from ten provinces
Last Line: For loyalist armies to come
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


LAMENT FOR GOLDEN GOURD, JIN-HU, by CAO ZHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Caressed and nursed in swaddling clothes
Last Line: But a time will come when I go with you
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Death - Children


LAMENT FOR GREENSLOPE, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our army was at greenslope
Last Line: Hold on and wait until next year, %don't act rashly!
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


LAMENT FOR MY DAUGHTER: 1, by WU WEI-YEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You were born amid death and destruction
Last Line: State's rise and fall affects all the world, %but when I think back, my distress is doubled
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Daughters


LAMENT FOR OLD MR. JI, THE FINEST BREWER IN XUAN-CHENG, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old mr. Ji in the yellow springs
Last Line: And who will buy his beer down there?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Beer; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Drinks And Drinking


LAMENT OF HSI-CHUN, by HSI-CHUN    Poem Text                    
First Line: My people have married me
Last Line: And could fly to my old home!
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Lament; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


LAMENT OF THE SILKMAID, by HSIEH FANG-TE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Until the fourth watch the cuckoo cries
Last Line: And her mistress not back from the party
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


LAOZI IN INDIANA, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whatever it is
Last Line: Is its third %and last virtue
Subject(s): China; Laozi (604-531 B.c.)


LAST POEM, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They have put my bed beside the unpainted screen
Last Line: I lie back on my pillows and sleep with my face to the south.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Death; Dead, The


LATE AUTUMN IN THE QI-AN DISTRICT, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: When winds came to willow-lined shores
Last Line: There's only an old man in a raincoat, %sitting there and fishing
Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons


LATE AUTUMN IN THE QI-AN DISTRICT, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: When winds came to the willow-lined shores
Last Line: Sitting there and fishing
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


LATE SPRING, by HAN YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every plant and tree knows spring will soon be gone
Last Line: They only know how to fill the sky with snow
Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


LATE SPRING, by TS'AO PIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one comes out to look at fallen flowers
Last Line: I only hear frogs in the grass-filled pond
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


LEAVE-TAKING, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your own orient
Last Line: Our own small sons
Subject(s): China; Tu Fu (712-770)


LEAVES OF A THOUSAND LOTUSES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tall peak to the south
Last Line: Twice dreamt now, %that dream of the southland
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Southern Dynasties


LEFT UNTITLED (2), by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Layers of draperies hang into depths
Last Line: At this clarity in madness
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


LEFT UNTITLED (4), by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That she would come was empty words
Last Line: But further beyond peng mountain %are ten thousand slopes more
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


LESSER EPISTLES: TO A LADY ON HER PASSION FOR OLD CHINA, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What ecstasies her bosom fire!
Last Line: Or else you break a faithful heart.
Subject(s): China (porcelain)


LET'S GO, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Down the road, strolling through drifts %of scarlet poppies
Subject(s): China - Democracy


LI FU-JEN, by WU-TI (157 B.C.- 87 B.C.)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sound of her silk skirt has stopped
Last Line: How slow she comes!
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love - Loss Of; Winter


LI HO, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Li ho of the province of honan
Last Line: He hears a child cry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): China; Grief; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness


LI PO, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jarred / the oars creaked in their locks
Last Line: A dreamer's silver hands were at work.
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Poetry & Poets


LI SAO (ON ENCOUNTERING TROUBLE), by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Scion of the high lord gao yang
Last Line: I shall go and join peng xian in the place where he abides
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


LIANGZHOU SONG, by WANG ZHIHUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The yellow river rises in the tall white clouds
Last Line: It never warms the other side of yumen pass
Subject(s): Yellow River, China


LIGHT RAIN IN EARLY SPRING, by HAN YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The streets of heaven glisten from light rain
Last Line: When the sight of misty willows fills the royal city
Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


LIKE A DREAM, by LI CH'ING-CHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will always recall that day at dusk
Last Line: And I startled to flight a whole shoal of egrets and gulls
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LIKE A DREAM (1), by NARA SINGDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was the moment when the pulley creaked
Last Line: Striped marks on body from bamboo mat, %a shadow in candlelight
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


LIKE A DREAM (2), by NARA SINGDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In thousands of tents the men are drunk
Last Line: Go back to sleep understanding %that waking has no appeal
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Sleep


LINES FOR THE CAI SANG ZI MELODY, by YAN SHU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time doesn't care about anything
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE CHAI TOU FENG MELODY, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The last time we met in this garden
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE DIE LIAN HUA MELODY, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE DIE LIAN HUA MELODY, by YAN SHU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Those imposing buildings could be palaces
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE FENG QI WU MELODY, by LIU YONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is dangerous here
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE MAN JIANG HONG MELODY, by YUE FEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am so angry my scalp prickles under my hat
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE NIAN NU JIAO MELODY: RECALLING OLD TIMES, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great river courses to the east
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE PU SA MAN MELODY: WRITTEN ON THE CLIFFS, by XIN QIJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Qing river runs
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE PU SUAN ZI MELODY: ODE TO THE PLUM BLOSSOMS, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the inn
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE QING YU AN MELODY: THE LANTERN FESTIVAL, by XIN QIJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It seemed that the east wind blew the trees
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE QUE XIAN MELODY, by QIN GUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: These transparent clouds so delicate
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE RU MENG LING MELODY, by LI CH'ING-CHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: It hardly rained
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE SHAO NIAN YOU MELODY, by YAN JIDAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is it that suffers the most?
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE SHUI DIAO GE TOU MELODY, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many times does a man see the moon
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE TA SHA XING MELODY, by YAN SHU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flowers begin to fade
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE WAN XI SHA MELODY, by YAN SHU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sipping a cup of wine
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE YE YOU GONG MELODY: WRITING ABOUT A DREAM, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many northern reed flutes are played at random
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE YU JIA AO MELODY, by FAN ZHONGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The frontier is brooding in autumn
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE YU LOU CHUN MELODY, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I would have made something up
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE ZHE GU TIAN MELODY: AFTER A GUEST TALKED, by XIN QIJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: What fine years they were to remember
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES FOR THE ZU MU ZHE MELODY, by FAN ZHONGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crystalline clouds and pale blue sky
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LINES WRITTEN IN CHINA, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: If what confucius %said was true
Last Line: Would have said, %had he known you
Subject(s): China


LISTENING TO A MONK PLAYING THE REED FLUTE, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dawn's sobbing cicadas or sad orioles at night
Last Line: It will join gold bells to mix with autumn
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


LISTENING TO A NEIGHBOR SINGING AT NIGHT, by MEI YAO-CH'EN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I couldn't get to sleep one night
Last Line: I was left with glow of the moon in my window
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Singing And Singers


LITTLE CHANG-GAN SONG, by CUI GUO-FU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moon grew dark in the wind
Last Line: And I knew you were here, somewhere on the pond
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


LITTLE MOON, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the flood had devoured he bei
Last Line: Off with a set of jade earrings'
Subject(s): Family Life - China


LITTLE SU'S TOMB, by LI HE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dew on the hidden orchid
Last Line: Beneath western mound %wind blows the rain
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Courtesans; Graves; Su Xiao-xiao (little Su)


LIVELIHOOD, by ZHAO YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our subsistence grows steadily bleaker
Last Line: And faintly I hear the maids telling stories %of our days of feasting and me in official robes
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


LIZARD EATER, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Never seems so narrow, so steep, so tortuous
Last Line: Uncle, this demigod laughing and defying death
Subject(s): Family Life - China


LO-YANG, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A beautiful place is the town of lo-yang
Last Line: And the girls with their high baskets full of fruit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


LOCAL SONG, by ZHAO YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In months of spring, april and may
Last Line: And without need of a go-between %they settle the marriage-bond?
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Marriage


LONE HAWK OVER THE BUDDHA TOWER OF THE MONASTERY OF UNIVERSAL PURITY, by MEI YAO-CH'EN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From my newly rented lodgings
Last Line: I now recall this and make it a poem %beside this autumn river
Subject(s): Birds; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Hawks


LONE WILD GOOSE, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone goose, not drinking or pecking for food
Last Line: The crows on the moors pay it no heed, %cawing and squawking in chaotic multitudes
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Geese; Solitude


LONELY CLOUD, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've lived on this very mountain
Last Line: So calm the whole day long
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Clouds; Serenity


LONG I HAVE LOVED TO STROLL, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long I have loved to stroll among the hills and marshes
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


LONG SONGS FOLLOWING SHORT SONGS, by LI HE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long songs wrecked my clothes
Last Line: I can't get to roam along with it, %my locks turn white ere the song is done
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Singing And Singers


LONG-TOU BALLAD, by ZHANG JI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The road to long-tou is cut off
Last Line: To once again take liang-zhou %into the house of han?
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life; War


LONG-XI; A BALLAD, by WANG CH'ANG-LING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every ten miles a horse is set galloping
Last Line: Snow now blows in the barrier mountains - %beacon fires are cut off, no smoke
Alternate Author Name(s): Wang Chang-ling
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life


LOOKING AT JUN MOUNTAIN WHILE CLIMBING YUEYANG PAVILION, by HUANG CHING-JEN+(1)    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have known so many dangers in this exile
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LOOKING FOR A RECLUSE WITHOUT SUCCESS, by CHIA TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Below the pines I ask the boy
Last Line: But the clouds are too thick to know where
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


LOOKING FOR THE RECLUSE AND NOT FINDING HIM HOME, by JIA DAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I asked his servant under the pines
Last Line: But the clouds are so deep I know not where.'
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests; Zen Buddhism


LOOKING OUT IN THE EVENING FROM EAST OF SIZHOU CITY, by QIN GUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lonely city is far away
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


LOST LOVE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Geese fly from north to south
Last Line: Wind never blows
Subject(s): China; Love - Loss Of


LOST LOVE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Geese fly from north to south
Last Line: Wind never blows
Subject(s): China; Love - Loss Of


LOST SISTER, by CATHY SONG                        Poet's Biography
First Line: In china, / even the peasants
Subject(s): China


LOST SISTER, by CATHY SONG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In china, %even the peasants
Last Line: There is an ocean in between, %the unremitting space of your rebellion
Subject(s): China


LOTUS-PICKING SONG, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the side, of ruo-ye creek
Last Line: Catching sight of this, someone falters, %a heart breaking for naught
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Courtship; Lotus


LOTUS-PICKING SONG, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leaves of water chestnuts curl in waves
Last Line: And her hair-pick of dark green jade %falls right into the water
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Girls; Lotus


LOVE STORY, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: After all, there's only one world for us
Last Line: And there are other people
Subject(s): China - Democracy


LYING SICK, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sickness in poverty, true disgrace
Last Line: Dawn's sorrows last to twilight sorrows
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sickness


LYRICS FOR THE GIRLS OF YUE, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A young wu girl from chang-an
Last Line: Fresh make-up bobs in fresh waves, %two scenes of brightness, both marvels
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Girls; Lotus


LYRICS OF CHU (THE NINE SONGS): 1. THE SOVEREIGN OF THE EAST, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a day of good luck, at the well-favored hour
Last Line: And our lord is much pleased, hale in his joy
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


LYRICS OF CHU (THE NINE SONGS): 2. LORD IN THE CLOUDS, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In orchid baths bathed, hair washed in blooms' scent
Last Line: Hearts greatly troubled, and fretful within
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


LYRICS OF CHU (THE NINE SONGS): 3. THE LADY OF THE XIANG RIVER, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lady will not go, still does she linger
Last Line: Let us wander off freely and be at our ease
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


LYRICS OF CHU (THE NINE SONGS): 4. THE LORD OF THE EAST, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I glow coming forth in the eastlands
Last Line: Off far through darkness voyaging east
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


LYRICS OF CHU (THE NINE SONGS): 5. THE YELLOW RIVER'S EARL, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With you I will roam to the river's nine channels
Last Line: And the school of fishes, will send off my bride
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Yellow River, China


LYRICS OF CHU (THE NINE SONGS): 6. THE HILL WRAITH, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It seemed there was someone in the cleft of the hills
Last Line: I long for the lady, fruitless torment I find
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Longing


LYRICS OF CHU (THE NINE SONGS): 7. THE KINGDOM'S DEAD, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our great shields we grasped, donned jerkins of leather
Last Line: Among ghosts, the stalwart, heroes among wraiths
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


LYRICS OF CHU (THE NINE SONGS): 8. RITES FOR SOULS, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rites are done now, drums beat together
Last Line: Forever and unceasing from the first ands on forever
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Rites And Ceremonies


LYRICS OF CHU: THE LI SAO, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of the god-king gao-yang I am the far off-spring
Last Line: I will go off to seek where peng and xian dwell
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


MAD WOMAN, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day long hidden in the box called china
Last Line: And am willing to suffer my punishment
Subject(s): China


MADLY SINGING IN THE MOUNTAINS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no one among men that has not a special failing
Last Line: I choose a place that is unfrequented by men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


MAGIC, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Boundless, the great sea
Last Line: Nor spoke of soaring in broad daylight up to the blue heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Magic


MAGPIE STEPS ON THE BRANCH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can't stand that 'lucky' magpie
Last Line: Off into the blue clouds
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Magpies


MAN HAS NO ROOTS, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Time waits for no man
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


MANY YEARS, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's you, it's you
Last Line: Which blossomed and bore fruit %for many years
Subject(s): China - Democracy


MAO'S GHOST, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mao was in tiananmen square himself that day. Not
Last Line: Stalinist purges, and the recent genocide in cambodia.'
Subject(s): China


MAPLE LEAF, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is a heart-shaped leaf
Last Line: As you quiver on your twig
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): China - Democracy; Leaves; Maple Trees


MARCH 5, 1180. IN EARLY MORNING CROSSING THE GREAT MARSH FERRY: 1, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river and hills beyond the fog
Last Line: Printed by my straw sandals %is the very first mark
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Ferry Boats


MARRIAGE SONG; WITH COMMENTARY, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We begin with the osprey who cries, 'clang, clang!'
Last Line: "snow-breasted, and transfixed in abstract love."
Subject(s): Birds; China; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism


MASTER OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 16, by HAN-SHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Someone asked me the way to cold mountain
Last Line: Then you could get there right away
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MASTER OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 232, by HAN-SHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Man's life in this dust-clouded world
Last Line: And then, in an instant, he's old
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Time


MASTER OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 233, by HAN-SHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When han-shan utters these words
Last Line: So dark it will be on those paths down below, %trapped in the toils of our karma
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MASTER OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 3, by HAN-SHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's fun to be on cold mountain road
Last Line: Shape asks shadow: 'which way to go?'
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MASTER OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 32, by HAN-SHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I go climbing up the cold mountain road
Last Line: May sit here with me inside the white clouds
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MASTERWORKS OF MING, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ming, ming / such a lovely
Subject(s): China - Ming Dynasty (1368-1640); China (porcelain)


MATCHING A POEM BY SECRETARY KUO, NO. 1, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thick thick the woods in front of my house
Last Line: Far far off I watch the white clouds, %my longing for the past deeper than words
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


MEDITATION HALL BEHIND POSHAN TEMPLE, by CH'ANG CHIEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I entered an ancient temple at dawn
Last Line: All I heard was a bell
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MEDITATION ON THE PAST AT JIN-LING III, by WANG ANSHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lay of the land bends eastward here
Last Line: Who again will weep on his sash %and pour out a cup in libation?
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Graves


MEETING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We met upon the narrow lanes
Last Line: Sit calmly, my lord, and listen awhile, %for the play of the strings is not done yet
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


MEETING A GENTLE RAIN ON THE SWORD-GATE PASS ROAD, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dust of travel on my clothes
Last Line: I enter sword-gate pass
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Self-consciousness


MEETING IN THE ROAD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In a narrow road where there was not room to pass
Last Line: And candles on its branches flaring away in the night
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


MEI-PI LAKE SONG, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The brothers cen have a passion for wonders
Last Line: Yet still there has ever been %much sorrow, great joy too
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MEMORY, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Candlelight flickered %on every face
Last Line: Whispering together %on quiet water
Subject(s): China - Democracy


MEN WHO WASHED THEIR EARS: 1. OLD CHAO, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old chao never had any big ideas
Last Line: Old chao washed his ears, heard nothing
Subject(s): China


MEN WHO WASHED THEIR EARS: 2. FOR SHEN CONGWEN, 1902-1988,ONE OF CHINA, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shen congwen, the same man
Last Line: Power, wisdom, shen congwen
Subject(s): China


MERCHANTS FROM CATHAY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their heels slapped their bumping mules; their fat chaps
Last Line: Lest once more those mad merchants come chanting from cathay!
Subject(s): China


MID-AUTUMN, by LI P'U    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bright spirit in the sky a jeweled mirror rising
Last Line: The next time the silver river is clear
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MID-AUTUMN MOON, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As evening clouds withdraw a clear cool air floods in
Last Line: Where will we see this moon next year
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MIDCURRENT SONG, by CUI GUO-FU    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I came back, the sun was still high
Last Line: And my boat whirled around, out of control
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MIDNIGHT, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is night's third hour, its third division
Last Line: Strings resting by the window
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Night


MIRACULOUS INSTRUMENTS: THE CHINESE TAPESTRY, by GLADYS SWAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It hangs on our wall now, this tapestry
Last Line: Its occasion, to rest here on the wall, %speaking its illumination
Subject(s): China; Tapestries


MISCELLANEOUS POEM AT CHINCHOU, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fighting goes on in fenglin
Last Line: When will they build him an altar
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MISSING YOU, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A multicolored chart without a boundary
Last Line: Only this.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): Absence; China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Grief; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


MISTER SU'S COUNTRY RETREAT, by TSU YUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your country retreat is such a quiet place
Last Line: I sit and listen to the birds of spring
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MOO GOO GAI PAN, by EVERETT LITTLEMORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a boy, and as a man
Last Line: Some guy cooks it up in a pan
Subject(s): China; Food And Eating


MOON, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her soul curls like a slender hook
Last Line: Is seen at how many spots on earth
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MOON AT THE FRONTIER PASS, by BAO JUNHUI    Poem Source                    
First Line: High, sky-high: fall's moon glitters bright
Last Line: No more to hear the clangorous camp-gongs' clash
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life


MOON OVER MOUNTAIN PASSES, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bright moon comes out from sky mountain
Last Line: And in high chambers on this same night, %the sighs, I am sure, are not yet still
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life


MOON OVER WEST RIVER; ON LEVEL MOUNTAIN HALL, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice I've passed by level mountain hall
Last Line: They were already a dream
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Yang-zhou (city), China


MOONLIGHT NIGHT, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This evening in fu-chou my wife
Last Line: And the moon shine on our dried tears
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China; Grief; Marriage


MOORING IN THE EVENING, by WU WEI-YEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winter hoes go in line along the shore
Last Line: We ask for fire, the village beer comes, %our cooking smoke rises through reed flowers
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


MORNING COURT AT TAMING PALACE, by CHIA CHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silver lanterns light the sky along the imperial streets
Last Line: And daily stained with ink in the service of our lord
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MOTIONLESS CLOUDS, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heavy and dull, the motionless clouds
Last Line: With longings unfulfilled, %brooding on my sorrow, what shall I do?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Clouds


MOUNTAIN FLOWER, by HE NING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cold notes from silver-inlay pipes
Last Line: She swats her true love
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


MOUNTAIN PAVILION ON A SUMMER DAY, by KAO P'IEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The shade from trees is dense and summer days are long
Last Line: A trellis of roses fills the courtyard with perfume
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MOUNTAIN STONES, by HAN YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mountain stones ragged and broken
Last Line: How could I manage to stay till old age, %and never return again?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MOUNTAIN WIDOW, by TU HSUN-HO    Poem Source                    
First Line: My husband died in battle my home is now a hut
Last Line: There's nowhere to go to escape corvee
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


MOVED BY THE END OF SPRING: SENT TO A FRIEND, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The oriole's song startles me from the remnants of a dream
Last Line: And finish my song beside the low-limbed pine trees
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Spring


MOVING HOUSE, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My old desire to live in the southern village
Last Line: Doubtful meanings we examine together and settle.
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Moving & Movers


MOVING HOUSE, NO. 1, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A long time I've wanted to live in the southern village
Last Line: Unusual writings we appreciate with one another, %working out the difficult passages together
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Moving And Movers


MOVING HOUSE, NO. 2, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In spring and fall there are many fine days
Last Line: A man should provide his own food and clothing; %while I work the fields I am not false to myself
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Farm Life


MOVING I, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wanted a place in nan-ts'un
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


MOVING II, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring and fall fine out
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


MOVING MY DWELLING: 1, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long I've wanted to dwell in south village
Last Line: In rare writings we'll find a shared delight, %between us we'll work out problems of meaning
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Country Life; Simplicity


MR. ISHII OF JAPAN SEEKS A MATCHING VERSE (USING HIS RHYMES), by QIU JIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is rash to say that a woman
Last Line: Just pass through the breeze of spring!
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


MULBERRIES BY THE PATH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunrise in southeast
Last Line: There are thousands that dine at his board, %and all of them say how grand he is!
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love - Age Differences; Love - Unrequited


MULBERRY BY THE PATH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun rises at the southeastern corner
Last Line: All say my husband looks superior
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


MY BROTHER WANG CHUN-FU BRINGS OUT A PAINTING BY THE MONK HUI-CHONG, by WANG ANSHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Painters there are in droves
Last Line: As they stressed the point that painters today %could not equal those of old
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Paintings And Painters


MY COTTAGE OF THATCH WAS LODGED IN A POOR LANE, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


MY FATHER'S MARTIAL ART, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Text                    
First Line: When he came home mother said he looked
Last Line: This oncoming traffic with your hah, hah, hah.
Subject(s): Family Life - China


MY HOME HERE, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


MY HOME LIES EAST OF THE EASTERN SEA, by HUANG JING-REN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Not of mist and cloud does he conjure shapes, %he conjures his shapes in me
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


MY NURSE, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: A young woman came sitting at our door
Last Line: Had I had the pleasure to live with a queen
Subject(s): Family Life - China


MY THREE AUNTS, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: My three aunts seldom smiled, my three aunts
Last Line: A shroud epoch hangs on her bed like a drunken ghost
Subject(s): Family Life - China


NEAR PAH-GOTZIN-KAY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dry birch logs
Last Line: I'm going to sleep with miss rock the rest of the winter
Subject(s): China


NEEDLE AND THREAD, by PAN CHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tempered, annealed, the hard essence of autumn metals
Last Line: They mar carve monuments yet lack all understanding
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


NEW BAMBOO AT EAST LAKE, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I planted thorns and built a fence to keep them safe
Last Line: And take my mat and pillow when I go
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


NEW CHINA POEM, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long flight, day lost
Last Line: Travel great distances, %visit qufu
Subject(s): China; Confucius And Confucianism; Shadow Boxing


NEW CHINA: THE IRON WORKS, by EUNICE TIETJENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The furnaces, the great steel furnaces, tremble and
Last Line: Tomorrow! Did they say?
Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs.
Subject(s): China; Iron And Steel Industry


NEW CORN, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swiftly the years, beyond recall
Last Line: That brushes the fields of new corn.
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Corn


NEW GRADUATE'S POEM MOURNING THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE: 1, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Those enrolled among the immortals don't linger in the human world
Last Line: Pan yue is so filled with grief that his hair is turning white
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mourning


NEW GRADUATE'S POEM MOURNING THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE: 2, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blending with the mist, a single branch of moon cassia is graceful
Last Line: For, since olden times, sorrow and joy have been the same as today
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mourning


NEW SWALLOWS, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In reponse to the season new birds return
Last Line: Through windows they're blocked by the dancers' gowns
Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Swallows


NEW YEAR'S DAY, by WANG ANSHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Firecracker sounds chase the year away
Last Line: New peach prints are pasted over last year's charms
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


NIGHT, by LI SHIZHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the night, awash with symbols
Last Line: Moonlight, oh, sharp intimation of exile
Subject(s): China - Democracy


NIGHT AT THE TOWER, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At year's end, yin and yang
Last Line: ...Be still and hushed
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China; Grief; Night


NIGHT'S MIDPOINT, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: West tower, more than a hundred yards high
Last Line: Yet in war's violence word rarely comes
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Night


NIGHT-CLOSING FLOWERS, by WU WEN-YING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where willows darken the river bridge
Last Line: Plants blooming here in the setting sun?
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 1, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Keep on going, on and on
Last Line: Let it go now, say no more! %just eat well and take care
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing; Travel


NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 10, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Faraway lies that star, the oxherd
Last Line: But across that bright and brimming stream, %she gazes with longing and cannot speak
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing; Night; Solitude


NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 13, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I drove my wagon out upper east gate
Last Line: The better way is to drink fine ale %and dress yourself in satin and silk
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Transience


NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 14, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each day those gone are farther withdrawn
Last Line: I long to turn back to my native town, %I wish to return, but there is no way
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Homesickness; Transience


NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 15, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Life's years do not reach a hundred
Last Line: Qiao the prince, a man undying - %it is hard to match his term of years
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Transience


NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 19, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Moonlight glowing so bright
Last Line: I crane my neck, go back into the room, %and tears that fall are soaking my gown
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Night; Solitude


NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 2, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green, green is the grass by the river
Last Line: He travels for pleasure, and never comes home now, %a lonely bed can't be kept empty for long
Subject(s): Absence; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 3, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cypress on grave mound, green so green
Last Line: So feast to the end, give the heart glee, %why let grim woes beset you?
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts


NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 4, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A good feast brings us to together today
Last Line: Don't stay a common man and poor, %ever in hardship, always beaten down
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Relationships


NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 5, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To the northwest stands a tower high
Last Line: I wish we could be two golden swans %to fly with great wingbeats high and away
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 9, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a rare tree in my yard
Last Line: What value has the thing itself? - %it only recalls how long since he left
Subject(s): Absence; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


NINETEEN POEMS IN ANCIENT STYLE: 1, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Going on always on and on
Last Line: Try hard to stay well
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


NINETEEN POEMS IN ANCIENT STYLE: 2, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green is the grass on riverbanks
Last Line: An empty bed, hard to keep alone
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


NOBLE AMBITION SPANS THE FOUR SEAS, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And vain is the way of fame and glory
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Pleasure


NORTH AMERICAN, by WANG ANSHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: North mountain sends down green flooding the embankment
Last Line: Searching for sweet-smelling plants I return home late
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


NOTE AFTER NOTE, by LI CH'ING-CHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Searching and searching, seeking and seeking
Last Line: How can that one word 'sorrow' grasp it?
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Language


NOTES ON THE CITY OF THE SUN, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Life %it rises, like the sun
Subject(s): China - Democracy


NUO-RI-LANG (IN TIBET, THE GOD OF VIRILITY), by YANG LIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mountain is a tiger burning fiercely beside the sea of chaos
Last Line: Heaven and earth have been created. The birds are twittering. All %this is merely a revelation
Subject(s): China - Democracy


OATH OF FRIENDSHIP (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you were riding in a coach
Last Line: I would get down for you
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);friendship


OATH OF FRIENDSHIP (2), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shang ya! / I want to be your friend
Last Line: Not till then will I part from you
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);friendship;love - Marital; Wedded Love;marriage - Love


OCCASIONAL POEM ON AN AUTUMN DAY, by CH'ENG HAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I'm at peace I let everything go
Last Line: The person who reaches this is truly noble
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


OCCASIONAL POEM ON THE ARRIVAL OF SPRING, by CHANG SHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The light is back the year is past ice and frost are rare
Last Line: The east wind blowing water ripples green
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


OCEAN MIRAGE AT DENG-ZHOU, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the cloudy sea off to the east
Last Line: They will join it, change and vanish away %along with the eastern wind
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


ODE TO THE AUTUMN WIND, by LIU YU-HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where does the autumn wind come from
Last Line: It wakes a lone traveler first
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ODE TO THE LITTLE CHINA MAN, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who art thou-sweet little china man?
Last Line: I'm miss eliza's beau!
Subject(s): China; Men; Statues


ODE TO THE PAST, by KAO SHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: He made a gift of his robe
Last Line: He still saw a common man
Alternate Author Name(s): Ta-fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


OF MYSELF, by QIAO JI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I didn't graduate in the top ten
Last Line: Of life's finer pleasures, %connoisseur
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341); Self


OFFERED TO EMPEROR TAIZONG, by XU HUI+1    Poem Source                    
First Line: Morning comes: I face the mirror stand
Last Line: A single summons? You think I'd come for that?
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


OFFHAND COMPOSITIONS: NEW YEAR'S EVE 1774, by HUANG JING-REN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Laughter and talk in a thousand homes
Last Line: Wastefully spending the heart's strength %to be a poet
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Holidays; New Year; Poetry And Poets


OFFICER AT TONG PASS, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Such bustling hubbub, as our troops
Last Line: Do instruct the general guarding the pass %not to follow the model of ge-shu han
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Soldiers


OFFICER OF THE GUARD, by XIN YAN-NIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bondsman of the house of huo
Last Line: No thank you, officer of the guard, %private love isn't worth it
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love - Age Differences; Love - Unrequited


OLD AGE, by JIANG SHIWEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wall grows suddenly wrinkled
Last Line: He seems to be listening for something. %what can he possibly have heard?
Subject(s): China - Democracy


OLD AIRS: 14, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sandstorms fill turkish passes
Last Line: Li mu, the general, is with us no more - %on the frontier men feed jackals and tigers
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Army - China; Frontier And Pioneer Life


OLD AIRS: 5, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How gray and green stands mount tai-bo
Last Line: I will work on the nugget of cinnabar %and leave forever the men of this world
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


OLD AIRS: 7, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was once one undying upon a crane
Last Line: I would dine on that herb called goldenray, %and live a long life, matching heaven's span
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


OLD AND NEW, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She went up the mountain to pluck wild herbs
Last Line: I see that the new will not compare with the old
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);marriage; Weddings;husbands;wives


OLD MAN'S BITTERNESS, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have no child to take down my writings
Last Line: To tell no difference between large and small %is the true nature of things, heaven's gifts
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Old Age


OLD POEM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She went up the hill to pick angelica
Last Line: And when I compare the gauze with the plain stuff, %I know the new wife can't equal the old
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


OLD POEM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I climbed the hill to pick underweed
Last Line: Then put the plain silk by the gold, %the new bride cannot match the old
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Marriage


OLD POEM: 1, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "on and on, always on and on"
Last Line: And try with all my might to eat and thrive
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);farewell; Parting


OLD POEM: 10, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Turning my chariot I yoke my horses and go
Last Line: Fame is the only treasure that endures
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);fame; Reputation


OLD POEM: 11, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The eastern castle stands tall and high
Last Line: Who are carrying clay to nest in the eaves of your house
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


OLD POEM: 12 (CONTINUATION OF 11), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dead are gone and with them we cannot converse
Last Line: "I want to go back, but there's no road back"
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);death; "dead, The;


OLD POEM: 13, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The years of a lifetime do not reach a hundred
Last Line: But how can we hope to share his lot?
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


OLD POEM: 14, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "cold, cold the year draws to its end"
Last Line: My falling tears wet the double gates
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);holidays;new Year


OLD POEM: 15, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At the beginning of winter a cold spirit comes
Last Line: I fear that you will never know or guess
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


OLD POEM: 16, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the bright moon, oh, how white it shines"
Last Line: Falling tears wet my mantle and robe
Subject(s): Absence;china - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Separation;isolation


OLD POEM: 17, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At fifteen I went with the army
Last Line: While tears fell and wetted my clothes
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);grief;homecoming; Sorrow;sadness


OLD POEM: 2, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "green, green, / the grass by the river-bank"
Last Line: It is hard alone to keep an empty bed
Subject(s): Absence;china - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Separation;isolation


OLD POEM: 3, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "green, green, / the cypress on the ground"
Last Line: And leave no room for sadness to creep in
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


OLD POEM: 4, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of this day's glorious feast and revel
Last Line: For long years plunged in sordid grief
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


OLD POEM: 5, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the north-west there is a high house
Last Line: That with beating wings rise high aloft
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


OLD POEM: 6, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crossing the river I pluck hibiscus-flowers
Last Line: "always fretting, till we are grown old!"
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


OLD POEM: 7, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A bright moon illumines the night-prospect
Last Line: Is of no profit and idly bears the same
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


OLD POEM: 8, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the courtyard there grows a strange tree
Last Line: But it may remind him of the time that has past since he left
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


OLD POEM: 9, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far away twinkles the herd-boy star
Last Line: Gazing at each other but never able to speak
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


OLD SCHOOL, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: When in school, on the jade-green campus
Last Line: The river's cliff grew dark in september mist
Subject(s): Family Life - China


OLD WHITE RUSSIAN, by CH'EN MENG-CHIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Glorious days he had, and a chivalrous spirit
Last Line: Makes him cough out again; he calls 'nathasha!'
Subject(s): China - Foreign Population; Old Age; Russian Revolution


ON A LONELY DUCK, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It dives in shallows for beakfuls of moss
Last Line: Then found its reflection and lingered
Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Ducks


ON A BOX CONTAINING HIS OWN WORKS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I break up cypress and make a book-box
Last Line: To be left by them to give to my grandchildren.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Books; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Writing & Writers; Reading


ON A LADY WHO FANCIED HERSELF A BEAUTY, by CHARLES SACKVILLE (1637-1706)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes
Last Line: That runs his link full in your face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dorset, 6th Earl Of; Middlesex, 1st Earl Of
Variant Title(s): On Dorinda
Subject(s): Beauty; China (porcelain); Love; Passion


ON A PAINTING OF PLAYING FOOTBALL, by CH'AO YUEH-CHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A thousand doors and windows open in the palace
Last Line: No longer are memorials submitted in the morning
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON A WINTER'S NIGHT, SENT TO FEIQING, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: With bitter longing I sought a poem, sang it beneath the lamplight
Last Line: The evening sparrows twitter, vainly circling the forest
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON A WOMAN UNWILLING TO COME FORTH, by LIU HSIAO-CHO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the curtain opens, I see hairpin's shadow
Last Line: Always shy of the candle's light
Subject(s): Bashfulness; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


ON BATS, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: By chance I visited the little zoo of d. H. Lawrence
Last Line: A moth from a spider, but care little for the bats
Subject(s): Family Life - China


ON BEING ASSIGNED AS MILITARY ADVISER TO THE GARRISON ARMY, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In younger days I stayed away from the world
Last Line: For the moment I'll let things shift as they may, %and in the end go back to master pan's hut
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


ON BEING MADE A PRESENT OF AN ANCIENT CHINESE STIRRUP, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mandarin who set his foot in this
Last Line: A mountain view, a breath of mountain air?
Subject(s): Beauty; China; Nature


ON BEING REMOVED FROM HSUN-YANG AND SENT TO CHUNG-CHOU, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before this, when I was stationed at hsun-yang
Last Line: And am pleased with anyone who is even remotely human!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON BEING SIXTY, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between thirty and forty, one is distracted by the five lusts
Last Line: "not to complain of three-score, ""the time of obedient ears."
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Aging; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON BOARD SHIP: READING YUAN CHEN'S POEMS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I take your poems in my hand and read them beside the candle
Last Line: Listening to waves that, driven by the wind, strike the prow of the ship.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Poetry & Poets


ON CLIMBING TSUNGCHIH PAGODA, by TS'EN SHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I climbed a pagoda that touched the highest heaven
Last Line: I would have served the golden immortal
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON DEPUTY PREFECT TU TAKING UP A POST IN SHUCHOU, by WANG PO    Poem Source                    
First Line: From walls that guard the realms of ch'in
Last Line: Our children drying their tears
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON FIRST ARRIVING IN BA-LING, JOINING LI BO AND PEI, WE GO BOATING, by JIA ZHIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: These men that I've met on the river
Last Line: Weep the maidens of xiang
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Rivers


ON GEESE TURNING BACK, by CH'IEN CH'I    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why do they turn back when they reach the hsiao and hsiang
Last Line: Unable to bear such melancholy they all fly away
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON GOING TO A TAVERN, by WANG CHI    Poem Text                    
First Line: These days, continually fuddled with drink
Last Line: How can I alone remain sober?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kung; Wang Ch'i
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Pubs; Taverns; Saloons


ON HEARING SOMEONE SONG A POEM BY YUAN CHEN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No new poems his brush will trace
Last Line: A pain had stabbed my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Poetry & Poets


ON ISSUING A RESIDENTIAL CERTIFICATE, by XUEFEI JIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This piece of paper with the seal on it
Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin
Subject(s): China; Tyranny & Tyrants


ON LANTERN FESTIVAL AT IMPERIAL REQUEST, by TS'AI HSIANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A forest of jeweled candles forms a thousand peaks
Last Line: For more than forty years his benevolence has grown
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON LANTERN FESTIVAL AT IMPERIAL REQUEST, by WANG KUEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It isn't snow but moonlight on the terrace of immortals
Last Line: May our lord lift up his rosy cup once more
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON MARCH 26, 1048, I HAD A DREAM, by MEI YAO-CH'EN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since the time that I remarried
Last Line: Out of nowhere snow beat on my window, %borne along, as well, by a furious wind
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Dreams


ON MEETING A CHIVALROUS MAN, by CH'IEN CH'I    Poem Source                    
First Line: Singer of elegies of yen and chao
Last Line: The sun is setting on the road ahead
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ten thousand miles in mist and rain, fifty
Last Line: Roses, roses to fade upon your stone
Subject(s): Family Life - China


ON MISTER YUAN'S COUNTRY RETREAT, by HO CH'E CH'ANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: We've never met good sir
Last Line: I have some coins in my purse
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON MY LAZINESS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a post but
Last Line: Scarcely counts as lazy at all
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Idleness


ON MY PORTRAIT, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I didn't even know my own face
Last Line: Best resign and depart, the sooner the better, %withdraw this body fit for clouds and streams
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Portraits


ON PASSING BY HUA-QING PALACE, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Turn and look back from chang-an
Last Line: Bringing down the sounds of laughter
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Xuan-zong, Emperor Of China; Yang Yu-huan (prized Consort)


ON POETRY: 1, by ZHAO YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The life I see all around me turns
Last Line: But when it's reached a thousand years, %it seems like a cliche
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Poetry And Poets


ON POETRY: 2, by ZHAO YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poems of li bo and du fu
Last Line: And each holds sway over poetry %for a span of five hundred years
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Poetry And Poets


ON REACHING HONH KONG, by HUANG TSUN-HSIEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The waters are those of yao's time
Last Line: Yet on the great flags I do not see %our yellow dragon
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Hong-kong; Imperialism


ON RETURNING TO MY GARDEN AND FIELD: 1, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was young, I did not fit into the common mold
Last Line: I am now able to come back to nature
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


ON RETURNING TO MY GARDEN AND FIELD: 2, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I plant beans at the foot of the southern hill
Last Line: So long as nothing goes contrary to my desire
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


ON SEEING A LANDSCAPE PAINTED BY MY COMMISSIONER COUSIN FOR LI KU, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fangchang surrounded by water
Last Line: Where can I go to escape the dust
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON SEEING PRINCESS YUNG-LO LEAVE FOR MANCHURIA, by SUN T'I    Poem Source                    
First Line: Orioles and flowers on the border are rare
Last Line: Dragon pass finally sees spring
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON THE BA RIVER BRIDGE: SENT HOME TO MY WIFE: 2, by WANG SHIH-CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mount tai-hua and mount zhong-nan
Last Line: In autumn rain and autumn wind %I cross ba river bridge
Subject(s): Bridges; China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


ON THE BIRTH OF HIS SON, by SU SHIH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Families, when a child is born
Last Line: By becoming a cabinet minister.
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): Birth; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Parenthood


ON THE CARVED STONE SCREEN OF WU KUI, THE HAN-LIN ACADEMICIAN, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When dawn's rays enter the woods
Last Line: But unfortunately I have grown very old %and can't keep you company
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Screens


ON THE CHINESE ABDUCTION OF TIBET'S CHILD PANCHEN LAMA, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The commandant, black chen, has walked
Last Line: From somewhere they believe they've never been.
Subject(s): China; Lamas; Persecution; Tibet


ON THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, by WEI WEN-TI    Poem Text                    
First Line: I look up and see / his curtains and bed
Last Line: Then why was he / not spared?
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Death; Fathers; Dead, The


ON THE FRONTIER, by NARA SINGDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rivers and hills have no single master
Last Line: Evening sunshine deep in the mountains, %deep in autumn, the rain
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Frontier And Pioneer Life


ON THE LAKE, by HSU YUAN-CHIEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Orioles chatter madly in trees of red blossoms
Last Line: Boats return at dusk on waves of flutes and drums
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON THE PAINTING OF TIERED BLUFFS AND THE MISTY RIVER, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sad heart upon the river
Last Line: Poems calling me to come home
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Paintings And Painters


ON THE PAINTINGS OF BAMBOO BY WEN TONG, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the moment wen tong was painting bamboo
Last Line: Who now grasps such fusion of spirit?
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Paintings And Painters


ON THE PAVILION OF THE DRUNKEN OLD MAN IN CHU-ZHOU, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forty is not yet old, and I
Last Line: Only the breeze that comes from the cliff %will blow me back sober again
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


ON THE POMEGRANATE FLOWER, by CHU HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pomegranate flowers brighten eyes in june
Last Line: Where ruby blossoms lie upon the emerald moss
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON THE QING-YANG ROAD, by WANG SHIH-CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tall bamboo blanket a sunlit stream
Last Line: And homes are right there in the cold green
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


ON THE SANCHU ROAD, by TSENG CHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Plums are yellow and days are sunny
Last Line: The occasional sound of orioles though is new
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON THE SET TOPIC: 'WILD GOOSE ON THE SANDS', by GENG WEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Still a long road to travel to heng-yang
Last Line: What thoughts as it stands alone on the beach? - %only worries that frost and sleet will come
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Geese; Migration


ON THE TERRACE OF CANG JIE'S INVENTION OF CHARACTERS AT SAN-HUI TEMPLE, by TS'EN SHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A wilderness temple, its grass-grown terrace at dusk
Last Line: Still like that time when he first invented writing
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Chinese Language; Temples


ON THE THREE PEAKS OF MAGIC STONE MOUNTAIN, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wondrous peaks welcome my horse
Last Line: Into this tiny poem
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


ON THE WAY TO HANGCHOW: ANCHORED ON THE RIVER AT NIGHT, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little sleeping and much grieving, - the traveller
Last Line: And still we have not reached hang-chow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel; Journeys; Trips


ON THE WINTER FESTIVAL I VISITED LONE MOUNTAIN AND TWO MONKS, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky looked like snow
Last Line: It cannot be grasped again
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


ON THE YELLOW SEA: A MAN FROM JAPAN SOUGHT SOME VERSES ..., by QIU JIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Riding the wind for thousands of miles
Last Line: But we must exert our strength to turn %heaven and earth aright
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Imperialism


ON THINKING OF MY LORD'S GRACE, by LING-HU CH'U    Poem Source                    
First Line: The oriole's song is gone from my garden
Last Line: Without seeing your kingfisher carriage
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON YELLOW CRANE TOWER HEARING A FLUTE, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly an exile on the way to changsha
Last Line: Plum blossoms fall in this city in june
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ON YIN-WU PAVILION, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flowers of springtime, autumn's moon
Last Line: Where I lie, facing the hills
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ONCE MORE FIELDS AND GARDENS, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as a young man
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Gardens And Gardening


ONE DAY BEFORE NEW YEAR'S EVE ... I SPENT THE NIGHT IN ZHI-PING TEMPLE, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The river was broad, the winds were strong
Last Line: But tomorrow I won't be able to bear %telling this mood tonight
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


ONE DAY COMING HOME: BALLAD (ON THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE), by WANG ANSHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we were poor I rushed here and there
Last Line: And if we meet in the world below, %will it be you or not?
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Death; Marriage


ONE I LOVE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Soon the east will grow bright %and all will be known
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Unfaithfulness


ORANGES ARE RIPE, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): China - Democracy


ORIOLE SHUTTLE, by LIU K'O-CHUANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through the willows to the treetops so full of feeling
Last Line: But it takes so much effort to weave
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ORPHANS OF SHANGHI, by GRACE FRENCH SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mere rags of children prowl about the street
Last Line: Divine must be the love to melt the steel!
Subject(s): Orphans; Shanghai, China; Foundlings


OU-YANG XIU ASKS ME TO WRITE A POEM ON A STONE SCREEN HE OWNS, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who sent you that stone screen
Last Line: Biting back their fury, weep %in secret mansions of the tomb
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Screens


OUT THE PASSES, by WANG CH'ANG-LING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bright moon of the days of qin
Last Line: He would not let the turkish horses %made the crossing of shadow mountain
Alternate Author Name(s): Wang Chang-ling
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life


OUT TO THE FRONTIER: 1, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cheerless, they leave their hometowns
Last Line: A true man's concerned with all the world - %how can I refuse to hold fast in hardship?
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life; Soldiers


OVERLOOKING TUNGTING LAKE-FOR PRIME MINISTER CHANG, by MENG HAO-JAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In september the lake is so flat
Last Line: To covet their catch is vain
Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


OX, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the sun comes over the eastern hedge
Last Line: And leading a calf, it walks
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): Animals; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Oxen


PAGODA, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I descend from my carriage
Last Line: I do not know its name
Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Asia; Begging And Beggars; Buddhism; China; Religion; Shrines; Temples


PAINTED HAWK, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind-blown frost rises from plain white silk
Last Line: When will it strike the common birds? - %bloody feathers strewing rhw weed-covered plain
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Birds; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Hawks; Paintings And Painters


PAINTED ON THE WALL OF MASTER HSUAN-WU'S ROOM, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What year did tigerhead ku
Last Line: Following the actual steps of hui-yuan
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


PAINTING OF A PINE, by JIN-YUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That painted pine looks exactly
Last Line: The third trunk over
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Paintings And Painters; Pine Trees; Trees


PALACE LYRICS: 95, by WANG JIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her sleep has beden fitful since spring began
Last Line: And flipping a coin, manages to win %two or three tosses
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Coin Tossing


PALACE ODE: 1, by LIN HUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above the gilded hall's purple-tiered pavilion
Last Line: His chariot of colored clouds drawn by dragon steeds
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


PALACE ODE: 2, by LIN HUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: At court the royal robes reflect the sun and moon
Last Line: Line the cinnabar steps before the sun goes down
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: BALLAD, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: No sooner did the drums of war
Last Line: No place in all the southland %will fail to hear the song
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: BELLS, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I journey on these thousands of miles
Last Line: Bells in the downpour, a melody, several lines of tears
Subject(s): Bells; China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: BRIBE, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hopes dashed, I helplessly mourn
Last Line: Might even serve the common weal
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: BRINGING HER FRUIT, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alone I've sat astride the saddle
Last Line: And no one realizes that these %are her lychees coming
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Lychee Nut


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: DECLARATION OF LOVE, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: This mitered crown scrapes the sky, whilu I
Last Line: May we find joy here
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: DENOUNCING THE REBEL, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Civil servants and generals, all
Last Line: All one should do is make merry %and never turn back
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: GIFT OF A MEAL, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Troubled lovely brows too lightly lost
Last Line: Head westward all alone
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: JADE BURIAL, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: On we speed, throngs
Last Line: Go instantly, one with another
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Funerals


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: MELODY-THEFT, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The score of 'rainbow skirts' is done
Last Line: It will be the newest tune
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Music And Musicians


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: OMEN, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one understands my mind
Last Line: To worry for our land
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: OUTING ON A SPRING HOLIDAY, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the harem's exalted ranks
Last Line: At those of springtime's splendid light
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: PEEKING AT THE BATHERS, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since youth my face was nature's gift
Last Line: On a bench of white jade
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: PROLOGUE AND ARGUMENT, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: On passion's stage, in olden times as now
Last Line: The weaver star fulfills the vow %made in the palace of lasting life
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: REUNION, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A single love has conjured forth
Last Line: That gods and spirits have their fates %which are not bound to love
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: SECRET PLEDGE, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clouds shelter my jade shuttle
Last Line: To send the asked-for skill
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: STOCKING-VIEW, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: This spot on the slope
Last Line: The hubbub out in these meadows %draws people who want to look
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: THE CIRCLE FOR DANCE, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hills are peaceful, breeze is light
Last Line: All over my body I newly bear %scents of rainbow-cloud
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Dancing And Dancers


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: THE CORPSE RELEASED, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweep along rippling in wind
Last Line: The worlds of heaven and mortal men %are both in distant faint
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: THE IMMORTAL'S RECOLLECTIONS, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Borne aloft by phoenix and crane
Last Line: Maid, lock the gate to my grotto and follow me in
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALACE OF LASTING LIFE: THE MUSIC, by HONG SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The finest nights lie under the sway
Last Line: By drops of the water-clock
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PALL BEARER'S SONG: 2, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I used to have no wine to drink
Last Line: One morning at dawn I went out my gate, %and I truly have not yet made it back
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Soul


PARASOLS, FIFTY-NINE CENTS, by MARY BRENNAN CLAPP    Poem Text                    
First Line: By rows of tight-sheathed chinese parasols
Last Line: And purpled blues, what dream could help but sink!
Subject(s): China; Umbrellas


PARTCH STATIONS: 2. HE FAILETH TO BE BORN IN CHINA, by JANET HOLMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forgive him in his wishes and delusions: he is beset
Last Line: Occupant is a heathen chinee, the note on his last door sang
Subject(s): Birth; China


PARTED BY GREAT DISTANCES, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Only then will the stains disappear %of their tears upon bamboo
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mythology - Chinese


PARTING, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now, as we cross this ancient threshold
Last Line: And our windy sighs to its sails
Subject(s): China - Democracy


PARTING, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: I get off my horse, offer you wine
Last Line: White clouds there that never end
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell


PARTING, by WANG ZHIHUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The willows, trees of the eastern gate
Last Line: I suppose because partings were many
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell


PARTING FROM A FRIEND ON A NIGHT IN SPRING, by CH'EN TZU-ANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: As black smoke coils from silver candles
Last Line: What year will it lead back again
Alternate Author Name(s): Po-yu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


PARTING FROM MR. XUE AT GUANG-LING, by MENG HAO-JAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are some men, their aims unfulfilled
Last Line: Where again shall I share your company?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Nature


PARTING FROM SU WU, by LI LING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The good time will never come back again
Last Line: And go with you right to your journey's end.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Farewell; Parting


PARTRIDGE WEATHER, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My home is set in blue-gray mists
Last Line: He lets his heroes age away %with utter unconcern
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


PARTRIDGE WEATHER (1), by YAN JIDAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: With such feeling your brightly colored sleeves
Last Line: That this meeting too is a dream
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


PARTRIDGE WEATHER (2), by YAN JIDAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A short lyric while drinking
Last Line: And again I strode over willow flowers, %across the xie bridge
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


PASSING BY LACE-CREST PALACE, by WANG JIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Its jade mansions lean at a tilt
Last Line: Hold sway over winds of spring
Subject(s): Xuan-zong, Emperor Of China; Yang Yu-huan (prized Consort)


PASSING CH'IEN-HSI AS MILITARY ADVISER IN THE 3RD MONTH ..., by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't travel much in these parts
Last Line: And my happiness among the frost-nipped juniper
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


PASSING CHAO-LING AGAIN, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From rude darkness the heroes rose
Last Line: Once more I gaze up the pine and cypress road, %watching five-hued clouds drift by
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Li Yuan, Emperor Of China (565-635)


PASSING HSIANGCHI TEMPLE, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unaware of hsiangchi temple
Last Line: Where zen subdued the serpent
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


PASSING T'IEN-MEN STREET IN CH'ANG-AN AND .. DISTANT VIEW OF CHUNG-NAN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow has gone from chung-nan; spring is almost come
Last Line: Turns his head and looks at the mountains, -- not one man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


PASSING THE SHRINE TO THE MASTER OF THE THREE GATES, by TAI SHU-LUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The waters of the yuan and hsiang never cease
Last Line: And blows through a grove of maples
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


PASSION, by LAN CHU-FANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am utterly bumbling
Last Line: Make a match found only in heaven
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341); Passion


PEACH BLOSSOM CREEK, by ZHANG XU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Half-hidden, a bridge soars up
Last Line: But at what spot is found that cave %upon the blue creek?
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


PEACH BLOSSOM FAN: ACCEPTING THE WAY, SELS., by KONG SHANG-REN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The greatest joy in heaven and among mortal men comes from
Last Line: Melt away once and for all?
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PEACH BLOSSOM FAN: PROLOGUE, by KONG SHANG-REN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is there such an antique as I?
Last Line: But here as I'm talking, hou fang-yu has already come on stage. Let's all watch
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PEACH BLOSSOM FAN: REFUSING THE TROUSSEAU, by KONG SHANG-REN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tortoise piss, tortoise piss
Last Line: The standard of taste does not follow %the fashions of the times
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PEACH BLOSSOM FAN: SENDING THE FAN, by KONG SHANG-REN    Poem Source                    
First Line: These icy silks pierced through
Last Line: By ding-zi curtain %there is a broken bridge
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PEACH BLOSSOM FAN: TEACHING THE SONG, by KONG SHANG-REN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With dark-drawn brows, I do not close
Last Line: To pass west of the lane
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


PEACH BLOSSOMS OF CHINGCHUAN HERMITAGE, by HSIEH FANG-TE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In peach blossom valley they escaped the ch'in
Last Line: Some fisherman I fear might try to find their source
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


PEACH BLOSSOMS OF HSUANTU TEMPLE, by LIU YU-HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red dust from purple paths swirls before their faces
Last Line: And all of them planted since mister liu departed
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


PEAR BLOSSOM IN THE EAST WING, by CH'IU WEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Its pristine beauty could fool the snow
Last Line: Blow it toward the steps of jade
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


PEONY PAVILION: LOOKING OVER THE PORTRAIT, by TANG XIAN-ZU    Poem Source                    
First Line: On leaves of the plantain tree
Last Line: Its adds to drunkennes of spring %sobering grows still harder
Subject(s): China - Ming Dynasty (1368-1640)


PEONY PAVILION: SECRET UNION, by TANG XIAN-ZU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is the goddess I glimpsed?
Last Line: I wonder from which of the peaks the goddess came
Subject(s): China - Ming Dynasty (1368-1640)


PEONY PAVILION: WAKING SUDDENLY FROM DREAM, by TANG XIAN-ZU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Back from dreams in orioles' warbling
Last Line: With a turn of the head spring's east wind %breaks the heart for good
Subject(s): China - Ming Dynasty (1368-1640)


PEOPLE HIDE THEIR LOVE, by WU-TI (464-549)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who says
Last Line: Like the flower that seems too precious to be picked?
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love


PERFORMERS ON THE TERRACE OF THE BLACK SPARROW, by HE XUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaves fall from trees in the autumn wind
Last Line: Song done, they look at each other and rise; %the sun sets with the sounds of cypress and pine
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Sound


PERSENTED TO CAO BIAO, PRINCE OF BAI-MA, by CAO ZHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: We greeted the emperor in cheng-ming lodge
Last Line: I cease my tears and take the long road, %grasping my brush, I say farewell here
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Farewell


PIG'S HEAVEN INN, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): China; Country Life


PILGRIMAGE TO WU MOUNTAIN SHRINE, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I visit gaotang where anarchic apes cry
Last Line: Vie vainly in spring for length like painted brows!
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


PLACE NAMES OF CHINA, by ALAN BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bolding vedas! Shanks new nisa!
Last Line: Cold the seat and loud the cistern %as I read the harpic tin
Subject(s): China


PLAGIARIZING POEMS, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A starving hount gnaws a dry bone
Last Line: Formerly writing was something chaste; %even then it did not make a good man worthy
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Plagiarism; Writing And Writers


PLANTING FLOWERS ON THE EASTERN EMBANKMENT, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I took money and bought flowering trees
Last Line: Sits till evening and will not move from the place!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Flowers; Gardens & Gardening


PLEASURE IN THE LOVELY WOMAN, by LI YU+(1)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flowers in spring, moonlight in fall
Last Line: Flowing off to the east
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


PLEASURES OF MEETING, by LI YU+(1)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Without a word I climbed to the western tower
Last Line: It has a flavor all its own %in the human heart
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


PLUM, by WANG CHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Immune from the slightest contaminating dust
Last Line: Poets ever since haven't stopped talking
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


PLUM BLOSSOMS, by WANG ANSHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A lonesome corner %just a few
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


PLUM BLOSSOMS III, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell me that the plums
Last Line: One old man set free
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Plums


POEM IN RESPONSE TO COMMISSIONER WU, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Monk zhi's vanished, flowery hermitage
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


POEM IN THE FORM OF A COFFIN-PULLER'S SONG, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A plain of wild grasses, broad and tangled
Last Line: And what of the one who has departed in death, %body left to merge with the round of the hill?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


POEM IN THE FORM OF A COFFIN-PULLER'S SONG, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the old days I had no wine to drink
Last Line: One morning I went out the gate, %and there's no date set fo 4 my return
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


POEM IN THE FORM OF A COFFIN-PULLER'S SONG, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What has a life must have a death
Last Line: I only regret that while I was in the world %I never got to drink enough wine!
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


POEM MODELED ON 'THERE'S A BEAUTY IN THE NORTH', by XU HUI+1    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's been said for all these years, she stands alone
Last Line: Don't take it lightly, that swinging, swaying waist
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


POEM ON RETURNING TO DWELL IN THE COUNTRY, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In youth I had nothing
Last Line: Now I am able %to return again to nature
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Country Life


POEM PRESENTED TO HIS MAJESTY ON VISITING XINFENG: 1, by SHANGGUAN WAN'ER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The very last of winter's three months
Last Line: Whose fields are all of jade
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


POEM PRESENTED TO HIS MAJESTY ON VISITING XINFENG: 2, by SHANGGUAN WAN'ER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wind-rattled phoenix pennons
Last Line: Opens beside the sun
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


POEM WITH BIRDS AND CLOCKS, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old woman %who lives
Last Line: And who do not %keep birds
Subject(s): China


POEM WITHOUT A CATEGORY, NO. 4, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The brave man has ambitions wide as the four seas
Last Line: Who, their hundred years ended, gone to tall graves, %find they've won themselves only empty names?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


POEM WITHOUT A CATEGORY, NO. 7, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun and moon refuse to slow their pace
Last Line: My old home is there on the southern mountain
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


POEMS OF THE YEAR JI-HAI, 1839: 125, by GONG ZI-ZHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All life in china's nine regions
Last Line: And grant us human talent %nor bound to a single kind
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


POEMS OF THE YEAR JI-HAI, 1839: 170, by GONG ZI-ZHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sorrows and joys of my youthful years
Last Line: But the 'child-mind' returns again %to this body in its dreams
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


POEMS OF THE YEAR JI-HAI, 1839: 5, by GONG ZI-ZHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sorrow of leaving sweeps me
Last Line: To nurture still more flowers
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


POEMS OF THE YEAR JI-HAI, 1839: 86, by GONG ZI-ZHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The addicts' lamps are ranged in groups
Last Line: And sleep through spring never waking %in the cold food festival?
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


POEMS ON MY DWELLING IN THE REAR PARK: 2, by ZHAO YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've suffered poverty knocked at my door
Last Line: No civil servants lie there starving to death
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Civil Service; Poverty


POEMS ON MY DWELLING IN THE REAR PARK: 3, by ZHAO YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A visitor suddenly knocked at my door
Last Line: Now I see that in histories of old %the most part belongs to pure puffery
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


POETIC EXPOSITION ON THE OWL, by JIA YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chan-yan is the year
Last Line: Trivial problems, picayune troubles %are not worth bringing anxieties
Subject(s): Birds; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Owls


POETIC EXPRESSION ON GAO-TANG: OPENING, by SONG YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: When they first came out
Last Line: And the clouds are nowhere to be found
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


POETIC EXPRESSION ON LITERATURE, by LU JI    Poem Source                    
First Line: He stands in the very center and scans the darkness
Last Line: When it covers metal and stone, virtue is spread: %through strings and flutes flowing, it is daily m
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Literature


POETIC GIFT FOR COURTESAN LI, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your talents past compare though far away
Last Line: Admire your winged dance atop the clouds
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


POETIC GIFT FOR SOMEONE VIEWING BAMBOOS AFTER RAIN, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In southern clime and spring rain times
Last Line: Its joints both hoary and sturdy
Subject(s): Bamboo; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


POLITICS OF MY HEART, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a cliche among foreigners in china that goes
Last Line: Has gotten under my skin, and because china hurts
Subject(s): China


POMELO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where pomello hangs down lovely fruit
Last Line: Green to yellow - swift the colors change
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


PORCELAIN COUPLE, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When jane felt well enough for me to leave her
Last Line: Bluebeard was, their cat who died long ago
Subject(s): China (porcelain); Home


POTTER, by MEI YAO-CH'EN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


POURING WINE ALONE, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: A long stretch of sky, vast sapphire
Last Line: Jug hanging from waist, I go roaming alone - %to an autumn hair mount tai is small
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Drinks And Drinking


PRELUDE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swallows go winging before the hall
Last Line: Stones jut up all along the stream; %it is best to go home and not travel afar
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Strangers


PRELUDE: WHITE SWANS IN PAIRS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In pairs white swans came flying
Last Line: Live this day with delight on delight, %long life to you, ten thousand years
Subject(s): Birds; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Swans


PRESENT FROM THE EMPEROR'S NEW CONCUBINE, by PAN CHIEH-YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: I took a piece of the rare cloth o fch'I
Last Line: And forget it, long before it is worn out
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Fans


PRESENTED TO SOMEONE ON PARTING, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: She is graceful, lithe, and winsome
Last Line: And none could compare with you
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Farewell; Yang-zhou (city), China


PRESENTED TO THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shying from the sun, I shade myself with gauze sleeves
Last Line: Why should I regret wang chang?
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


PRIVATE THOUGHTS, by YEN SHU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her lacquered carriage no longer arrives
Last Line: But everywhere rivers and mountains are endless
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


PROCLAIMING AN IMPERIAL VISIT TO THE SHANGLIN PARK, by WU ZETIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month
Last Line: Don't wait for the morning wind to blow
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


PROFESSOR XU/MADAME BOVARY/SPARROW WAR, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Without his wife
Last Line: Emma bovary like a wife
Subject(s): China


PRUNING TREES, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trees growing - right in front of my window
Last Line: But better still, -- to see the green hills!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Trees


PUBLIC BANQUET, by CAO ZHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The prince honors dearly loved guests
Last Line: Whirled along, our spirits are free - %may it stay this way forever!
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts


QI JIAN (SEVEN REMONSTRANCES): 1. WHEN FIRST EXILED, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was born in the city
Last Line: And only with death will my grief end
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


QI JIAN (SEVEN REMONSTRANCES): 2. DROWNING IN THE RIVER, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I think of the history of bygone ages
Last Line: I can no longer bear to look on my prince's folly
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


QI JIAN (SEVEN REMONSTRANCES): 3. DISGUST WITH THE WORLD, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world is sunk and foul and undiscriminating
Last Line: Than look any longer on this unclean age
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


QI JIAN (SEVEN REMONSTRANCES): 4. EMBITTERED THOUGHTS, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The good man is afflicted and lives in obscurity
Last Line: But the way to him is blocked and impassable
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


QI JIAN (SEVEN REMONSTRANCES): 5. OPPRESSED BY GRIEF, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Living in misery, to whom can I make my plaint
Last Line: Mourning the constancy of the dweller there
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


QI JIAN (SEVEN REMONSTRANCES): 6. MOURNING MY LOT, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I mourn that my lot was cast in an unfit time
Last Line: Plunged once more in the waters, never more to return
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


QI JIAN (SEVEN REMONSTRANCES): 7. RECKLESS REMONSTRANCE, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It angers me that the fair one is so fickle
Last Line: I grieve because my spirit can find no outlet
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


QI JIAN (SEVEN REMONSTRANCES): 8. LUAN, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The phoenix and the phoenix' mate
Last Line: Why should I complain of the men of today
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


QI-YU SONGS: 1, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man should act with daring
Last Line: Wrens surge away on either side
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


QI-YU SONGS: 4, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man is a pathetic bug
Last Line: Better by far than a maid of fifteen
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


QUATRAIN, by CHIH-NAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I tied up my sampan in the shade of an ancient tree
Last Line: And my face wasn't numbed by the willow-catkin wind
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


QUATRAIN, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Birds are still whiter against river's sapphire
Last Line: And when will be the time that I turn home?
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Time


QUATRAIN, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pair of golden orioles sings in green willows
Last Line: My gate harbors boats from ten thousand miles downriver
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


QUATRAIN ON THE POOL BEHIND THE DISTRICT OFFICE IN QI-AN, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Water chestnuts pierce floating algae
Last Line: Bathing their clothes of red
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Lakes


QUATRAIN WRITTEN ON THE ROAD, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: White strands of hair in my mirror
Last Line: As I head on toward chang-an
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel


QUATRAINS ON VARIOUS TOPICS: 1, by WU CHUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Day's cicadas had already brought yearning pain
Last Line: And now this evening, the fireflies
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Farewell


QUITTING MY POST AT HE-ZHOU AND VISITING JIAN-KANG, by LIU YU-HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn's waters, clear and lacking force
Last Line: I climb all the temples of the southern dynasties
Subject(s): China - Southern Dynasties


QUITTING MY POST AT HE-ZHOU AND VISITING JIAN-KANG, by LIU YU-HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn winters, clear and lacking force
Last Line: I climb all the temples of the southern dynasties
Subject(s): China - Southern Dynasties


QUOTATIONS FROM NAPOLEON, MAO, AND OTHERS, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: China is a sleeping giant,' napoleon once said; the
Last Line: Not die.' lu xun, one of the greatest chinese writers of %our century
Subject(s): China


RAVEN PRIEST, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the seaside
Last Line: I wake to the cries of village roosters
Subject(s): Family Life - China


REACHING SWORD GATE PASS AFTER TOURING THE LAND OF SHU, by HSUAN-TSUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our tour complete our carriage returns
Last Line: How true is this inscription
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


READING THE BOOK OF HILLS AND SEAS, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the month of june the grass grows high
Last Line: He will never be happy, whom such pleasures fail to please!
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


READING THE CLASSIC OF HILLS AND SEAS: 1, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Start of summer, grass and trees grown tall
Last Line: In the space of a nod I've toured the universe - %how could I be other than happy?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Geography


READING THE CLASSIC OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS: 1, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer's first month, all plants grow tall
Last Line: In an instant I have covered the universe - %if this is not joy, what is?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


READING TIANANMEN SQUARE, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The text of tiananmen square, which is still being
Last Line: And are, cast like ballots
Subject(s): China; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989


REALIZING THE FUTILITY OF LIFE; WRITTEN ON THE WALL OF A PRIEST'S CELL, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever since the time when I was a lusty boy
Last Line: That very striving will make one's error more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Religion; Zen Buddhism; Theology


REBEL CAMP IN THE HINDU KUSH, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mountains lie quietly together
Last Line: On the horizon %not one single light
Subject(s): China - Democracy


RECITING ALOUD, ALONE IN THE MOUNTAINS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each person has some one addiction
Last Line: I'm afraid I'll be mocked by the times, %so I come to this place where no man is
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Solitude


RECORDING MY THOUGHTS WHILE TRAVELING AT NIGHT, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A shore of thin reeds in light wind
Last Line: A solitary gull between heaven and earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


RED FILLING THE RIVER, by JIANG KUI    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the old lady came, the goddess undying
Last Line: In the shadows of the blinds?
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


RED OCTOPUS, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She folds the four corners into the center
Last Line: Inflates the body of the octopus.
Subject(s): China; China - Red Guards


REFLECTION OF A HIGH BUILDING IN THE WATER, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the water's bottom a tracery screen appears
Last Line: The waves pass on, the reflection remains
Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


REFLECTIONS AT A RIVER TOWER, by CHAO KU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alone on a river tower my thoughts full of sorrow
Last Line: The view isn't quite the same as last year
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


REFLECTIONS WHILE READING: 1, by CHU HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A small square pond an uncovered mirror
Last Line: It said spring water keeps flowing in
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


REFLECTIONS WHILE READING: 2, by CHU HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night spring waters rose along the river
Last Line: Today in midstream they travel with ease
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


REGAL-CONCUBINE, by ANNIE LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They say I am the delilah of the t'ang dynasty
Last Line: They say I am the delilah of the t'ang dynasty
Subject(s): China; High School Students; Teenagers


REGRET, by YUAN CHI    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I was young I learnt fencing
Last Line: That makes this fury tear my heart.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fencing; Time


REGRET IN THE CHANGMEN PALACE, by XU HUI+1    Poem Source                    
First Line: You used to love my cypress rafter terrace
Last Line: Hard to offer water that's been spilled
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


REGRETFUL THOUGHTS, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fallen leaves are scattered by evening rain
Last Line: No more green water and blue hills
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


REJOICING AT THE ARRIVAL OF CH'EN HSIUNG, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the yellow bird's note was almost stopped
Last Line: For it makes us tell the story of our whole lives.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Drinks & Drinking; Friendship; Wine


RELEASE FROM MELANCHOLY; SONG (WRITTEN UNDER THE FLOWERS), by LI HE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn winds blow over the earth
Last Line: And not let the world's petty things %weigh down and stifle me
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Melancholy


RELEASING A MIGRANT YEN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At nine rivers, in the tenth year, in winter, - heavy snow
Last Line: They will pluck from your body those long feathers and make them into arrow-wings!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Freedom; Geese; Liberty


REMEMBERING GOLDEN BELLS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ruined and ill, - a man of two score
Last Line: Because, in the road, I met her foster-nurse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Daughters; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


REPLYING TO A POEM BY PRIME MINISTER LU OF CHINLING, by TU SHEN-YEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only an impotent official
Last Line: I think of home and dry my eyes
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


REPORTING FROM BEIJING, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: China daily, the 'english-language newspaper' here
Last Line: Day I have less to say. I've been in china seven months
Subject(s): China


REPROACH, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fair woman raises the beaded drapes
Last Line: Cannot know the man who bears her reproach
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


REPROACH IN A LETTER ON COLORED PAPER, by SHANGGUAN WAN'ER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When first leaves fall on lake dongting
Last Line: This misery in living long apart
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


REPROACH IN LOVE, by LI YE    Poem Source                    
First Line: People say the sea is deep
Last Line: Heart and strings will break together
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


REPROACH IN THE WOMEN'S CHAMBERS, by WANG CH'ANG-LING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The oyung wife in her chambers
Last Line: And regretted having sent her husband %to seek glory in the army
Alternate Author Name(s): Wang Chang-ling
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


RESIGNING AS MINISTER, by LI SHIH-CHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yielding my post to the able
Last Line: How many will visit today
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


RESPECTFULLY ANSWERING 'DRIFTING ON THE RIVER', by YU HSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The spring river comes down past white emperor castle
Last Line: As the sun goes down, winds calm on the river, %the dragon sings our and turns back upstream
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Rivers; Travel


RESPONDING TO SECRETARY CHIA CHIH'S MORNING COURT AT TAMING PALACE, by TS'EN SHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roosters announce dawn in the capital is cold
Last Line: And how hard to match his 'sunny spring'
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


RESPONDING TO SECRETARY CHIA CHIH'S MORNING COURT AT TAMING PALACE, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sound of nightlong dripping speeds the shaft of dawn
Last Line: By the pond today I found a phoenix feather
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


RESPONDING TO SECRETARY CHIA CHIH'S MORNING COURT AT TAMING PALACE, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the crimson-capped crier strikes the dawn clapper
Last Line: The sound of jade pendants returns to phoenix pond
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


RESUME, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once I goosestepped across the square
Last Line: On an old tree that looked like a mop %gazing into the distance
Subject(s): China


RETIRING AFTER ATTENDING A TEA AT HSUANTE PALACE, by CHOU PI-TA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pagoda trees crowd the path crows flock at dusk
Last Line: With a new crescent moon above the myrtle
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


RETURN TO MY COUNTRY HOME, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When young I couldn't bear the common taste
Last Line: That we live among shadows and ghosts %and return at last to nothingness
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


RETURNING ON YANG LAKE, by ZHAO YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: My canvas sail billows slightly
Last Line: And rapping the rhythm on boatsides, %going with me all the way home
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Homecoming


RETURNING TO DWELL IN GARDENS AND FIELDS: 1, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My youth felt no comfort in common things
Last Line: For long time I was kept inside a coop, %now again I return to the natural way
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Country Life


RETURNING TO DWELL IN GARDENS AND FIELDS: 3, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the outlands few things trouble a man
Last Line: And they will fall to ruin with common weeds
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Farm Life


RETURNING TO MY HOME IN THE COUNTRY, NO. 1, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So long since I've enjoyed the hills and ponds
Last Line: Man's life is a phantom affair, %and returns at last to the empty void
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Home


RETURNING TO MY HOME IN THE COUNTRY, NO. 1, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I planted the beans at the front of the southern mountain
Last Line: Wet clothes - they're not worth a worry, %just so my hopes aren't disappointed!
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Home


RETURNING TO MY HOME IN THE COUNTRY, NO. 1, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out here in the fields, few social affairs
Last Line: But always I fear that frost or hail may come %and knock them all down like so many weeds
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Home


RETURNING TO MY HOME IN THE COUNTRY, NO. 1, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In youth I couldn't sing to the common tune
Last Line: After so long in the cage of mine, %I've come back to things as they are
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Home


RETURNING TO MY RETREAT, by CH'EN T'UAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through the red dust I tramped for ten years
Last Line: To wildflowers and birdsongs and the same old spring
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


RETURNING TO THE FIELDS, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was young, I was out of tune with the herd
Last Line: Now I have turned again to nature and freedom.
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Variant Title(s): Returning To The Village
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Freedom; Liberty


RHYME-PROSE ON THE DESOLATE CITY, by PAO CHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Broad and far-reaching, the level plain
Last Line: All end thus - %what is there to say?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ming-yuan; Bao Zhao
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; Kuang-ling, China


RHYMING WITH A FRIEND, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: What can melt away the melancholy of lodging at an inn?
Last Line: But for now I'll take it in hand and chant it
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


RICE, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is our very teeth that we sink in the earth
Last Line: Anoint the earth and make it good to eat
Subject(s): China; Farm Life; Mongols And Mongolia; Rice


RISING DRUNK ON A SPRING DAY, TELLING MY INTENT, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are lodged in this world as in a great dream
Last Line: Then sing wildly, waiting for the moon, %when the tune is done, I no longer care
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Drinks And Drinking


RISING LATE AND PLAYING WITH A-TS'UI, AGED TWO, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the morning I have lain perversely in bed
Last Line: I have added the fourth of playing with my baby-boy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Sons


RIVER FLOODED, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The river flooded ourside my scrapwood gate
Last Line: The fisherman twirls his small paddle, %and turns the prow round so easily
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Fishing And Fishermen


RIVER VILLAGE, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bend in the clear river flows
Last Line: For myself beyond things like that %what more have ti to seek?
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


RIVER VILLAGE, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A clear river winds around the village
Last Line: What else does this poor body need
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ROADS OF LOYANG, by CH'U KUANG-HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The roads are as straight as strands of hair
Last Line: Ride by in pairs with their bridles ringing
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ROADS OF LUO-YANG: PRESENTED TO THE DIRECTOR LI XIANG: 1, by CH'U KUANG-HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The spring ice melts on the river luo
Last Line: How around horses' hooves the fallen flowers swirl
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


ROAMING FREE IN HUAI-NAN, by ZHANG HU    Poem Source                    
First Line: For ten miles long avenues
Last Line: Have good fields for tombs
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Temples; Yang-zhou (city), China


ROAMING IN THE NORTH PARK BY NIGHT, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Star sparkles break through trees on the ridge
Last Line: But the bright waves stir, showing currents
Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


RUIN IN CATHAY: 1. 1217, by J. F. HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: No sound of bird now breathes from the hushed walls
Last Line: Genghis kha khan has scampered through cathay.
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Genghiz Khan (1162-1227); Jenghiz Khan; Chingis Khan; Chingiz Khan


RUIN IN CATHAY: 2. 1938, by J. F. HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: War lifts its iron head above the wall
Last Line: Winged death glides low over china's plains.
Subject(s): China; World War Ii; Second World War


RYHMEPROSE ON AN OWL, SELS., by CHIA YI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The year was tan-wo, it was the fourth month, summer's first
Last Line: Be detached, remote, and soar with tao
Subject(s): Birds; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Omens; Owls


SACRIFICAL PRAYER FOR THE DEAD ON MY OWN BEHALF, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The year is 427
Last Line: I wonder how death will be? %alas
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Death


SAIL RETURNS TO THE DISTANT SHORE, by MA CHIH-YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The evening sun goes down
Last Line: Beside the broken bridge, %each fishseller goes his way
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341)


SAILING HOMEWARD, by CHAN FANG-SHENG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cliffs that rise a thousand feet
Last Line: And moved his brush to write a new song.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Homecoming


SALT MERCHANT'S WIFE (IN HATRED OF PROFITEERS), by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The salt merchant's wife
Last Line: This happened not in the han alone, %it happens also now
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Greed; Hate


SAYING GOOD-BYE, by LI SHIZHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The green field stretches out like a mind at ease
Last Line: Just guarding the darkness
Subject(s): China - Democracy


SAYING GOODBYE ON THE YI RIVER, by LUO BIN-WANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here where yen tan said goodbye
Last Line: But the water is still cold today
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SAYING GOODBYE TO LU CH'IN-CH'ING, by SSU-K'UNG SHU    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know we plan to meet again
Last Line: Is weaker than a shihyu wind
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SCENT OF LACE, by SHI DA-ZU    Poem Source                    
First Line: A deed of chill betrays blossoms
Last Line: And talking till deep in the night
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


SEAL SCRIPT IN STONE, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From cold cliff a cascade flies
Last Line: To su shun-qin and mei yao-chen
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): Calligraphy; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


SEASONS COME AND GO: 001, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By and by, the seasons come and go
Last Line: Winging over the new sprouts
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


SEASONS COME AND GO: 002, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bank to bank, the stream is wide
Last Line: Happy to be by myself
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


SEASONS COME AND GO: 003, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peering into the depths of the stream
Last Line: We can no longer bring them back
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


SEASONS COME AND GO: 004, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the morning and at night
Last Line: Sad and alone, here I am
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


SEASONS SHIFT, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever onward seasons shift
Last Line: No reaching yao or yellow emperor, %distressing solitude lies in me
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Seasons; Spring; Transience


SEEING OFF A FRIEND, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark hills stretch beyond the north rampart
Last Line: Our parting horses neigh
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SEEING OFF A FRIEND LEAVING FOR SHU, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You've heard of the tsantsung road
Last Line: You don't need to ask yen tsun
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SEEING OFF CHAO TSUNG AT NIGHT, by YANG CHIUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Scion of chao jade disk worth cities
Last Line: Moonlight fills the waiting river
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SEEING OFF CHU TA LEAVING FOR CH'IN, by MENG HAO-JAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For an unemployed gentleman bound for wuling
Last Line: A simple piece of my heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SEEING OFF EDITOR TS'UI MARCHING EAST, by CH'EN TZU-ANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Golden skies have turned forbidding
Last Line: Or seek your fame at unicorn hall
Alternate Author Name(s): Po-yu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SEEING OFF REVEREND DAN XII, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A poet suffers making poems
Last Line: Starving from poems, old without rancor, %I have troubled the monk to shed streaming tears
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Poetry And Poets


SEEING OFF SPRING, by WANG FENG-YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In april flowers fade and fall and more appear
Last Line: Convinced it can still call the east wind back
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SEEING OFF SPRING ON THE LAST DAY OF APRIL, by CHIA TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: When april reaches its thirtieth day
Last Line: Until the dawn bell you're still spring
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SEEING OFF SUPPLY DIRECTOR KUO, by WANG CH'ANG-LING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Huai river green brightens my door
Last Line: But every night spring waters grow deeper
Alternate Author Name(s): Wang Chang-ling
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SEEING OFF TS'UI JUNG, by TU SHEN-YEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our sovereign sends forth her general
Last Line: The autumn wind quell kupei
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SEEING OFF YUAN ER ON A MISSION TO ANHSI, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Morning rain dampens the dust in weicheng
Last Line: West of yang pass there's no one you know
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SELLING TATTERED PEONIES, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Facing the wind, my sighs are stirred
Last Line: That he has no way to buy
Subject(s): Aging; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Peonies; Women


SELLING WILD PEONIES, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sigh into the wind at how often the flowers fall
Last Line: Then, my dear prince, you will regret that they are no longer for sale
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Peonies


SENDING A FRIEND ON HIS WAY, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green hills stretch past the north ramparts
Last Line: We wave, going off from here, %and our horses whinny on parting
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell


SENDING A PALACE LADY BACK BY NIGHT TO THE REAR BOAT, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rows of brocade curtains shelter her barge
Last Line: Her lingering scent still fills my boat
Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


SENDING HAN KUI ON A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN REACHES OF THE YANGZI, by LI YE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We look at each other and point to willows
Last Line: Flying back and forth, year after year
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SENDING MR. YUAN ON HIS WAY ON A MISSION TO AN-XI, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the walls of wie city the rain at dawn
Last Line: Once you go west out yang pass %there will be no old friends
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell


SENDING OFF MR. YAO, A SUPERNUMERARY, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of countless willows one early autumn branch
Last Line: So mist and moon at two spots will not feel sad
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SENDING OFF MR. YING (1), by CAO ZHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: On foot I climbed up bei-mang's slopes
Last Line: When I think on this place I used to live, %breath chokes within, I cannot speak
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Homecoming


SENT TO FEIQING, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the stone steps crickets chirp, unsettled
Last Line: So what can console my autumn feeling?
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SENT TO JUDGE HAN CHUO IN YANG-ZHOU, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Its green hills in shadows
Last Line: Being hidden to play on the flute?
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SENT TO ZI'AN, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drunk at parting: a thousand goblets of wine won't wash away my sorrow
Last Line: But I'm not willing to stay languidly drunk in my jade tower
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Grief


SENTENCES FOR JIANG QING: 2. LAST CHAPTER AND VERSE, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman of many callings
Last Line: Of history, her heavy heart
Subject(s): China; Jiang Qing (madame Mao)


SEPARATION, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday I heard that such-a-one was gone
Last Line: And laughing gaze into each other's eyes?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Death; Dead, The


SERVING IN THE SECRETARIAT, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At gossamer hall the writing has stopped
Last Line: Purple myrtle flowers face a purple myrtle man
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SET TO THE TUNE RUYI NIANG, by WU ZETIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Watching red turn to green, my thoughts entangled and scattered
Last Line: Open the chest and look for the skirt of pomegranate-red
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SETTLING WIND AND WAVES, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pay no heed to those sounds
Last Line: On the other, not clear skies
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


SEVEN SORROWS: 1, by WANG CAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In chang-an the fighting was out of control
Last Line: I gasped and felt the pain within
Subject(s): Absence; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Grief; War


SEVEN SORROWS: 2, by WANG CAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jing-man is not my home
Last Line: This wayfaring will never end, %the sting of care is hard to endure
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Exiles; Night; Solitude


SEVENTH NIGHT, by YANG P'U    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've never understood the herdboy's thoughts
Last Line: Unaware the world has enough skills already
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SHE DRINKS DEEP AND SINGS, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunset, cloudless skies
Last Line: They don't last, what can we do?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Love


SHENGKUO TEMPLE, by CH'U-MO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leading up from lesser peaks
Last Line: Singers and flutes muffle the bell
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SHORT POEM, by L QUBGZHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you are living
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


SHORT SONG, by CAO CAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wine before me as I sing
Last Line: The duke of zhou broke off his meals, %and all the world turned to him in their hearts
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Guests


SHRINE TO YU THE GREAT, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A shrine to yu on a desolate slope
Last Line: He opened up this land of pa
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SICK OX, by LI GANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Opened a thousand furrows
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


SIGHT-SEEING IN THE MOORS OUTSIDE OF LIANG-ZHOU, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old men of the prairie, two or three homes
Last Line: The shamanka dances in frenzy, %dust shows on her stockings of gauze
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Clergy; Travel; Women


SIT DOWN, OLD SIR, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Country bus to yung hsu and to nan chong
Last Line: Old enough to be pitied by an angel from heaven'
Subject(s): Family Life - China


SITTING ALONE ON CHINGTING MOUNTAIN, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flocks of birds disappear in the distance
Last Line: Only chingting mountain
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SITTINGS, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sitting in the poem-reciting pavilion
Last Line: In china that is optional too
Subject(s): China


SIXTH MONTH OF 408: WE HAD A FIRE, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My thatch hut was set in a narrow lane
Last Line: But since I wasn't born in those times, %I'll just go on watering my garden
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fire


SKINNY, SKINNY, OF COURSE SKINNY, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: What does this forearm of a country girl look like
Last Line: A bottle of old wine costs 25,000 renmin bi'
Subject(s): Family Life - China


SMALL DEFEATS: A CHINESE PAINTING ON RICE PAPER, by GORDON WEAVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It seems almost purposefully plain
Last Line: In art, the showing how-to-be of being
Subject(s): Art And Artists; China; Paintings And Painters


SMALL GARDEN, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Misty plants of my small garden
Last Line: I took advantage of gentle rain %to go and weed my melons
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Gardens And Gardening


SMALL QUESTIONS, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Child: mama mama these young aunties and uncles
Last Line: Mother; the flower with petals every color of the rainbow
Subject(s): China


SNOW AND THE PLUM: 1, by LU MEI-PO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The plum and the snow both claim the spring
Last Line: But the snow can't match a wisp of plum perfume
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Fruit; Plums; Poetry And Poets; Spring


SNOW AND THE PLUM: 2, by LU MEI-PO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The plum without the snow isn't very special
Last Line: Together with the plum they complete the spring
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Plums; Poetry And Poets; Spring


SNOW LINE, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forget what I said
Last Line: Meltwater streams %through the lush marsh grass
Subject(s): China - Democracy


SNOWY NIGHT, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My books lie scattered all around
Last Line: The winds that bear the whir %of mighty wings
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Snow


SOME TIME AGO ... I SAW A PAINTING OF BUDDHA BY WU DAO-ZI, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Noblemen whose wealth is great
Last Line: And let they fly off in smoke
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Paintings And Painters


SOMETHING TOUCHED ME ONE NIGHT AND I TRY TO GET IT OUT, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I studied at night, by dawn and was not done
Last Line: I think on past travels upon the green rivers
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel


SONG, by SUN TZU-HOU    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the eastern way at the city of lo-yang
Last Line: "joy and love never come back again."
Subject(s): Aging; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Trees


SONG, by TSANG CHIH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was brought up under the stone castle
Last Line: Who waved to me as they went in and out.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


SONG FOR THE BANK WHERE THE COCK CROWED, by WEN T'ING-YUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the southern dynasties emperor
Last Line: Would linger on in the crabapples %and their branches like snow
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); China - Southern Dynasties


SONG FOR THE GOVERNOR OF WILD GOOSE BARRIER, by LI HE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black clouds weigh down on the walls
Last Line: And we take in hand the jade dragon-swords %and die now for our lord
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life


SONG FOR THE RIVER TUNE, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How long has the moon been up there?
Last Line: To share across a thousand miles its lovely graces
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


SONG FOR THE WOMAN WHO RAISES SILKWORMS, by XIE FANGDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cuckoos are already noisy before dawn
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


SONG OF A BROWN WREN IN WILD FIELDS, by CAO ZHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: High in the trees are sad strong winds
Last Line: It flew and flew till it touched the sky, %then came again down to thank the young man
Subject(s): Birds; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Wrens


SONG OF A PAINTING, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Descended from wei's warrior king, you, general
Last Line: How all their days hardships and troubles %entangled them
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Paintings And Painters


SONG OF A YOUNG NOBLEMAN AT THE END OF NIGHT, by LI HE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Coiling smoke of sandalwood
Last Line: Encircling his waist, white jade cold
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SONG OF AN ARROWHEAD FROM THE BATTLEFIELD OF CHANG-PING, by LI HE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Char of lacquer, powder of bone
Last Line: Tried to get me to trade the metal %for an offering basket
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SONG OF DRAFT CURSIVE, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To brew three thousand gallons of beer
Last Line: I consigned it all to the great hall %whose walls were nine feet high
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


SONG OF LASTING PAIN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Han's sovereign prized the beauty of flesh
Last Line: Yet this pain of ours will continue %and never finally end
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Pain; Passion; Xuan-zong, Emperor Of China; Yang Yu-huan (prized Consort)


SONG OF LIAN-ZHOU, by WANG HAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweet wine of the grape
Last Line: And how many ever returned?
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Drinks And Drinking


SONG OF LIANG-ZHOU, by WANG ZHIHUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The yellow sands stretch off and up
Last Line: The winds of spring have never passed %jade gate barrier
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SONG OF LORD XIE'S VILLA, by WEN T'ING-YUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To the south of redbird pontoon bridge
Last Line: And he never let fu jian %cross the river huai
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); China - Southern Dynasties


SONG OF MING-GAO: SENDING OFF MR. CHEN, A GENTLEMAN IN RETIREMENT, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems there is someone, he longs for ming-gao
Last Line: I will join you forever as a friend
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Homecoming


SONG OF MY CARES WHEN GOING FROM THE CAPITAL TO FENG-XIAN, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man of du-ling in commoner's clothes
Last Line: Reasons to be troubled are as great as south mountain, %a chaos that no one can gasp
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SONG OF P'ENG-YA, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember when we first fled the rebels
Last Line: And I think how it would be to have strong wings %that would carry me away, set me down before you
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars


SONG OF SNOW-WHITE HEADS, by CHO WEN-CHUN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our love was pure
Last Line: Till her hair is white.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chuo Wen-chen
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love


SONG OF THE AUTUMN WIND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn winds rise, white clouds fly
Last Line: How long does youth's prime last? - no hope against old age
Subject(s): Aging; Autumn; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Seasons; Transience


SONG OF THE BOWMEN OF SHU, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "here we are, picking the first fern-shoots"
Last Line: "our mind is full of sorrow, who will know of our grief"
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);grief; Sorrow;sadness


SONG OF THE BRIGHT MOON, by PAO CHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bright moon comes forth from eastern hills
Last Line: A thousand gold pieces don't matter - %what counts is the strength of feeling
Alternate Author Name(s): Ming-yuan; Bao Zhao
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Moon; Singing And Singers


SONG OF THE MEN OF CHIN-LING (MARCHING BACK TO THE CAPITAL), by HSIEH T'IAO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Chiang-nan is a glorious and beautiful land
Last Line: And for those who have done valiantly rich reward awaits.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hsuan-hui; Xie Tiao
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Soldiers


SONG OF THE PRINCE OF LANG-YA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I just bought a five-foot sword
Last Line: Better by far that a maid of fifteen
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Swords


SONG OF THE SOUTHLAND, by YU HU    Poem Source                    
First Line: She had happened to go by the river
Last Line: But furtively tossed a silver coin %to find the fortune of someone far
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Coin Tossing


SONG OF THE SOUTHLAND (1), by CH'U KUANG-HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: When on the long river the sun goes down
Last Line: Go back and forth chasing the wakes of boats
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SONG OF THE SPRING PALACE, by WANG CH'ANG-LING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night the breeze brought to bloom
Last Line: He gives her a coat of brocade
Alternate Author Name(s): Wang Chang-ling
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SONG OF XIANG-YANG, by CUI GUO-FU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Xiang-yang is a young man's place
Last Line: Know my skill on the harp of qin
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SONG OF YONG-ZHOU: 2. NORTH ISLE, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shores shaded by hanging willow fronds
Last Line: Sapphire waters splash their long sleeves, %and drifting mosses dye the light paddles
Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


SONG ON REFLECTIONS IN WATER, by SHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her light tresses mimic the drifting clouds
Last Line: Where duckweed opens, she smoothes tousled hair
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


SONG ON VISITING HEAVEN'S CRONE MOUNTAIN IN A DREAM: ON PARTING, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seafarers speak of that isle of ying
Last Line: It makes me incapable %of relaxing heart or face
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell


SONG SEQUENCE TO 'A SPRAY OF FLOWERS', by ZHONG SI-CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Born to dwell between earth and sky
Last Line: And made me: unhandsome
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341)


SONG WHITE HAIR, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As bright as the snow on mountaintop
Last Line: Long life to you, ten thousand years
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Unfaithfulness


SONG WRITTEN ON THE TOPIC 'STREAMS FLOWING DOWN IN THREE GORGES', by LI YE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My home used to be there
Last Line: I want those flowering streams to continue forever
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SONG: EVERY NIGHT, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dipper stretches across the sky
Last Line: In lamplight half of the bed is in shadow
Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


SONG: PROMOTING WOMEN'S RIGHTS, by CH'IU CHIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our generation yearns to be free
Last Line: Never to fail or disappoint, out citizen heroines!
Subject(s): China - Democracy; Women's Rights


SONGS OF HU-ZHOU: 3, by WANG YUAN-LIANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the palace halls crowds of officials
Last Line: While thousands of horsemen with wild hair ride %in circles before the hall
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


SONGS OF MY CARES: 1, by RUAN JI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the night I could not sleep
Last Line: I wavered then, what would I see? - %troubled thoughts injure a heart all alone
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Night; Solitude


SONGS OF MY CARES: 16, by RUAN JI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was walking about beside peng pond
Last Line: No regrets that he ends up wasted and gaunt, %and this is the burden of my song
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


SONGS OF MY CARES: 2, by RUAN JI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two maidens roamed by river's shore
Last Line: How can a bond strong as metal and stone %change in only a day to parting pain?
Subject(s): Betrayal; Han River, China; Nymphs


SONGS OF MY CARES: 3, by RUAN JI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A path will form beneath fair trees
Last Line: And the year too has reached its end
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Farewell


SONGS OF MY CARES: 33, by RUAN JI    Poem Source                    
First Line: One more day, then one more evening
Last Line: All my life I have walked on thin ice, %and none understands how this heart seethes
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Simplicity


SONGS OF MY CARES: 6, by RUAN JI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have heard of count dong-ling's melons
Last Line: One may spend a life in commoner's clothes, %put no trust in stipends and popularity
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Simplicity


SONGS OF MY CARES: 68, by RUAN JI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I looked out north on the gorge of dry dark
Last Line: Who now can stop me from leaving the world?
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


SORROW, by MEI YAO-CH'EN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heaven took my wife. Now it
Last Line: Not even a shadow in the mirror
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Death - Children; Grief


SORROWS, by JIANG SHIWEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grey earth. %I gaze at you a long time
Last Line: Again, this darkest moment of the year
Subject(s): China - Democracy


SOURCE OF PAIN: 2, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In lonely stillness, echoes from twilight eaves
Last Line: Like seeing the lacework of spiders
Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


SOUTH COUNTRY, by OU-YANG JIONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In his bright-colored skiff he rests his oars
Last Line: In the grove of plantain
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


SOUTH OF THE GREAT SEA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My love is living
Last Line: And then it too wil know
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);love - Loss Of


SOUTH OF THE WALLS WE FOUGHT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: At dawn you went forth to battle, %and at evening did not return
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Death; War


SOUTHERN SONG, by LI CH'ING-CHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up in heaven the star-river turns
Last Line: Are not as they were before
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


SPARROWS IN WINTER, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hundreds of sparrows
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


SPEARS AND SHIELDS, by WANG CHUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where can I go when spears and shields are clashing
Last Line: And stay completely drunk until peaceful times begin
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SPENDING A SUMMER NIGHT WITH MY COUSIN TALKING ABOUT THE PAST, by TOU SHU-HSIANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Magnolia perfume inundates the courtyard
Last Line: I hate those blue flags by the bridge
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SPENDING THE NIGHT AT AN INN OUTSIDE THE WEST GATE OF JI-ZHOU, by CHAO DUAN-YOU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winter woods in the last sunlight
Last Line: Munch on the last of the hay
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


SPENDING THE NIGHT AT LUNGHSING TEMPLE, by CH'I-WU CH'IEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I failed to leave the temple by dark
Last Line: Everywhere birds carried them off
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SPENDING THE NIGHT AT YUNMEN TEMPLE PAVILION, by SUN T'I    Poem Source                    
First Line: At incense pavilion below east peak
Last Line: I dreamed I was traveling with clouds
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SPENDING THE NIGHT IN REVEREND YE'S MOUNTAIN CHAMBER, by MENG HAO-JAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When evening sun passed over western peaks
Last Line: My harp waits alone on the vine-hung path
Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests; Nature


SPRAY OF FLOWERS (NOT GIVING IN TO OLD AGE), by GUAN HAN-QING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've plucked every bud hanging over the wall
Last Line: I'll walk the lane of misty flowers %no more
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341); Flowers; Old Age


SPRING BIRTHDAY, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because it's spring, on my birthday
Last Line: Garden churns to pebbles, to weeds
Subject(s): Family Life - China


SPRING CLEARING, by WANG CHIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before the rain there were buds among the flowers
Last Line: Apparently spring has moved to the neighbor's
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SPRING COMPLAINT, by CHIN CH'ANG-HSU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chase the orioles away
Last Line: And keeps her from reaching liaohsi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SPRING DAWN, by MENG HAO-JAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleeping in spring oblivious of dawn
Last Line: I wonder how many petals fell
Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SPRING DAY, by CHU HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Along the ssu river it's a fine day for blossoms
Last Line: A thousand pinks and purples and everywhere spring
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SPRING FEELINGS, SENT TO ZI'AN, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mountain road slants, the rocky steps are steep
Last Line: Tears that fall in the bright light -- and this single poem
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Spring


SPRING IN THE MANSION OF JADE, by CHOU PANG-YEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At peach creek I did not stay
Last Line: The passion, like floss that sticks to the ground %in the aftermath of rain
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


SPRING LAMENT, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was hoping joy would overflow this spring
Last Line: If not because of cares then illness
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SPRING LONGINGS, by WANG SENG-JU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The snows are over, branches turn green
Last Line: That leads me to write these songs of love
Alternate Author Name(s): Seng-ju; Wang Seng-ru
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing; Spring


SPRING NIGHT, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A spring night hour is worth a ton of gold
Last Line: Swinging in the courtyard far into the night
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SPRING NIGHT, by WANG ANSHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The burner is out of incense the dripping has almost stopped
Last Line: The moon casts shadow flowers on the balustrade
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SPRING PASSION, by XU ZAI-SI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had never felt longing all my life
Last Line: And the moon had grown %half bright
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341); Longing; Passion


SPRINGTIME IN THE MANSION OF JADE, by YAN JIDAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The east wind did it again, unsentimental
Last Line: Will I watch the blossoms all fall away?
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


STAYING OVERNIGHT AT THE CHANCELLERY IN SPRING, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flowers by the palace retire at dusk
Last Line: And questions about last night
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


STIRRED BY SOMETHING AT MOUNT LI, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cascades fly from mount li's cliffs
Last Line: There is only the prince of shou
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Xuan-zong, Emperor Of China; Yang Yu-huan (prized Consort)


STONE FISH LAKE, by YUAN CHIEH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I loved you dearly, stone fish lake
Last Line: For ever and ever staring at the stone fish.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tz'u-shan
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Nature


STOPPING AT PEIKU MOUNTAIN, by WANG WAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My route goes past blue peaks
Last Line: Tied to a goose bound for loyang
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


STOPPING BY THE TEMPLE OF INCENSE MASSED (1), by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: I knew not of the temple of incense massed
Last Line: Towards dusk at the bend of a deserted pool, %in meditation's calm I mastered passion's dragon
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Meditation; Passion; Temples


STOPPING BY THE TEMPLE OF INCENSE MASSED (1), by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not know incense incense heap-up temple
Last Line: Towards dusk at the bend of a deserted pool, %in meditation's calm I mastered passion's dragon
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Meditation; Passion; Temples


STOPPING THE NIGHT AT JUNG-YANG, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I grew up at jung-yang
Last Line: Passionless, -- flow in their old course.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel; Journeys; Trips


STOPPING WINE, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My home? I'm stopping near the town
Last Line: How could it stop in a thousand, ten thousand years?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


STORM-BORN VERSE, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swirling clouds darkening my windows
Last Line: Through my fingers, like a congo eel
Subject(s): Family Life - China


STRANGE BIRD, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Came a strange bird
Last Line: Who would shoot this strange bird down
Subject(s): Family Life - China


STREET LIFE, STREET DEATH, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The streets of beijing are not like the streets of any other
Last Line: Shoes. I brought them with me. I didn't leave everything %behind
Subject(s): China


STREETS IN SHANGHAI, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white butterfly in the park is read by many
Last Line: Wounds we don't know about
Subject(s): Shanghai, China


STREETS IN SHANGHAI, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white butterlfy in the park is read by many
Last Line: We look almost happy out in the sun, while we are bleeding fatally from %wounds we don't know about
Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Shanghai, China; Travel


STROLLING ALONG A JUNIPER PATH IN THE MORNING, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rain stopped and in the groves
Last Line: And I also was startled
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


STROLLING OUTSIDE TOWN, by CH'ENG HAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the sweet green countryside I walk where I want
Last Line: Why not go wandering just remember to return
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


STUDY IN THE HILLS, by YU HSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sought in vast stillness clam chambers
Last Line: Makes me feel still more how heart's cares have erred
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


SUBSTANCE, SHADOW, AND SPIRIT, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High and low, wise and simple, all busily hoard up the moments of life
Last Line: And make as little fuss as you can.
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


SUBSTANCE, SHADOW, AND SPIRIT, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven and earth go on forever, never ceasing
Last Line: When it's time to fade away, then fade away - %why should you alone be so full of care?
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


SUI PALACE, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The halls of the palace at lavender springs
Last Line: It would not be right again to ask %for 'in the rear court flowers'
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Yang, Emperor Of China (sui Dynasty)


SUI PALACE (2D VERSION), by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He roamed off to the south on a whim
Last Line: Half to be his for his sails
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Yang, Emperor Of China (sui Dynasty)


SUITE ON AUTUMN THOUGHTS, by MA CHIH-YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The time passed in life's century
Last Line: Tell him he'll find %me utterly drunk by the eastern hedge
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341); Pleasure; Simplicity


SUMMER, by LI SHIZHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flowers are blooming still, those hypocrites
Last Line: Among the woebegone sunflowers
Subject(s): China - Democracy


SUMMER DAY, by CHANG FENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late summer on the river the sun and wind are mild
Last Line: Let me pass this life chopping wood and fishing
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SUMMER DAY IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lazily waving a white feather fan
Last Line: My bare head ruffled by wind through pines
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Summer


SUMMONS OF THE SOUL, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lord god said to wu yang
Last Line: O soul, come back! Return to your old abode
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


SUNBEAMS SHOOT, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunbeams shoot through a gauze window screen
Last Line: Where a sapphire green parrot faces %the red roses
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SUNG OUT IN SYMPATHY FOR FLOWERS, by BAO JUNHUI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flowers on a branch
Last Line: And go back to the cave of your room
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SUNLIGHT CAST BACK, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To the north of the chu king's palace
Last Line: A soul never called back
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SUNNING ONESELF, by ZHOU MI    Poem Source                    
First Line: My back to the light, I wait for woodsmen and herdsmen
Last Line: My mind joins together with the void
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Sunbathing


SURPRISED BY AUTUMN ON THE FEN, by SU T'ING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The north wind blows white clouds
Last Line: I can't bear the sounds of autumn
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


SWING, by HUI-HUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A pair of blue ropes swing from a painted frame
Last Line: A banished immortal from toad palace it seems
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TAKING DOWN A TRELLIS, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These sticks, tied together, are falling apart
Last Line: Man's life too always begins well
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Gardens And Gardening


TAOISM AND BUDDHISM, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A traveller came from across the seas
Last Line: To the heaven of bliss fulfilled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Buddhism; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Religion; Taoism; Buddha; Buddhists; Theology


TAOIST SONG, by CHI K'ANG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will cast out wisdom and reject learning
Last Line: "my thoughts shall wander in the great void."
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


TAOPING, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the vast blue-shadow-sweeping plain
Last Line: Their cannon-bowelled fortress of taoping?
Subject(s): China; Soldiers


TCHIREK SONG, by ALTUN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tchirek river / lies under the dark mountains
Last Line: Sheep and oxen roam.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Tatars; Tartars


TEA CEREMONY IN THE EAST PAVILION, by BAO JUNHUI    Poem Source                    
First Line: At ease this morning, turn toward dawn
Last Line: That gives off cooling winds
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TEAHOUSE, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the rickshaw-jammed gate of chengdu
Last Line: Moaning incessantly into the eastern seas
Subject(s): Family Life - China


TELEGRAM, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind our house, one october morning
Last Line: Too stupid to tell my ancestral spirit from a bird
Subject(s): Family Life - China


TELL ME NOW, by WANG CHI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell me now, what should a man want
Last Line: And, at the end, need no paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kung; Wang Ch'i
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Contentment; Old Age


TELLING MY FEELINGS, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Idle, at ease -- with nothing that I must attend to
Last Line: And then, half-drunk, I rise and comb my hair
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TEMPLE OF SHOOTING STARS, by WANG ANSHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Into jutting clouds terrace and hall
Last Line: But I, lacking talent, am put to shame, %having come here so casually
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


TEN STANZAS ON THE AUTUMN RAIN: 1, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was sick of hearing the rain drip
Last Line: Beyond a curtain of pearls %an azure-colored screen
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Rain


TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 1. A DOG SEPARATED FROM ITS MASTER, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind crimson gates for four or five years
Last Line: Upon the red silk rug
Subject(s): Absence; Animals; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Dogs


TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 10. A MIRROR SEPARATED FROM ITS STAND, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The molten gold was poured
Last Line: Within the splendid hall
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mirrors


TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 2. A BRUSH SEPARATED FROM THE HAND, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reed of yue and xuancheng bristles
Last Line: In the hand of wang xizhi
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 3. A HORSE SEPARATED FROM THE STABLE, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ears like snow, a russet coat
Last Line: Drawing the splendid coach
Subject(s): Absence; Animals; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Horses


TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 4. A PARROT SEPARATED FROM ITS CAGE, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: It goes alone through longxi
Last Line: Calling from its cage
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Parrots


TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 5. A SWALLOW SEPARATED FROM THE NEST, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In and out through crimson gates
Last Line: Up among the rafters
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Swallows


TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 6. A PEARL SEPARATED FROM THE PALM, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Glistening thing, bright and round
Last Line: In the owner's palm
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Pearls


TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 7. A FISH SEPARATED FROM ITS POOL, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the lotus pond for four or five years
Last Line: Through the clear waves
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Fishing And Fishermen


TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 8. A HAWK SEPARATED FROM THE GAUNTLET, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Talons sharp as blade-point
Last Line: Upon the ruler's arm
Subject(s): Absence; Birds; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Hawks


TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 9. BAMBOO SEPARATED FROM A PAVILION, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Exuberant growth, newly planted
Last Line: Over the jadelike hall
Subject(s): Absence; Bamboo; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TENDER BUTTONS: A PLATE, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An occasion for a plate, an occasional resource is in buying and how soon does
Subject(s): Dishes; China (porcelain)


TESTAMENT, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Perhaps the time has come
Last Line: From starry bullet-holes %the blood-red dawn will flow
Subject(s): China - Democracy


THE ASHES; FOR WILLIAM GASS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This elderly poet, unpublished for five decades
Last Line: Her name known to everyone, safe in her fame.
Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Honor; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


THE AUTUMN WIND, by WU-TI (157 B.C.- 87 B.C.)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Autumn wind rises: white clouds fly
Last Line: Youth's years how few! Age how sure!
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Time; Wind


THE BALLAD OF THE ARMY, by TU FU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chariots rumble and roar
Last Line: "with darkened sky, and drenching rain,—a melancholy sound!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Army - China; Soldiers; War


THE BATTLE, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: We grasp our battle spears: we don our breast-plates of
Last Line: Captains among the ghosts, heroes among the dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); War


THE BIG RUG, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That so many of the poor should suffer from cold what can we do to prevent?
Last Line: Which at one time could cover up every inch of the city.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Poverty; Rugs; Carpets


THE BLUE-GREEN STREAM, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Every time I have started for the yellow flower river
Last Line: Dropping my fish-line forever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Calm; China; Inland Waters; Nature; Peace; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST WU (1), by WEI WEN-TI    Poem Text                    
First Line: My charioteer hastens to yoke my carriage
Last Line: Gladly enough would I go to my country's aid.
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST WU (2), by WEI WEN-TI    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the north-west there is a floating cloud
Last Line: This being abroad and always living in dread.
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


THE CHANCELLOR'S GRAVEL-DRIVE, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A government-bull yoked to a government-cart!
Last Line: Need not trouble him at all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Government; Roads; Paths; Trails


THE CHINAMAN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Centre of earth!' a chinaman he said
Last Line: His tail: those flames became its funeral-pyre.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): China; Hair; Maps


THE CHINESE AND ROMAN ARTISTS; OR, THE MIRROR OF THE HEART, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This contest heed, of chinaman's and roman's art
Last Line: With endless images reflections it incrust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali
Subject(s): Art & Artists; China; Rome, Italy


THE CHINESE LAUNDRYMAN, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is a librarian of laundry
Last Line: To make, one more time, the fabric hold.
Subject(s): China; Laundry & Laundering


THE CHINESE NIGHTINGALE; A SONG IN CHINESE TAPESTRIES, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How, how,' he said. 'friend chang,' I said
Last Line: Said the chinese nightingale.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Birds; China; Nightingales; Tapestries


THE COCK-FIGHT, by TS'AO CHIH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our wandering eyes are sated with the dancer's skill
Last Line: "then I shall not leave without winning the match!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-chien
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Cock-fighting


THE CURTAIN OF THE WEDDING BED, by MRS. LIU HSUN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Flap, flap, you curtain in front of our bed!
Last Line: Curtain -- shall I ever take you out again?
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE DESECRATION OF THE HAN TOMB, by CHANG TSAI    Poem Text                    
First Line: At pei-mang how they rise to heaven
Last Line: "and am sorely grieved at the thought of ""then"" and ""now."
Alternate Author Name(s): Meng-yang
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


THE DRAGON OF THE BLACK POOL; A SATIRE, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep the waters of the black pool, coloured like ink
Last Line: Beneath the nine-fold depths of his pool, does he know or not?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


THE EASTERN GATE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I went out at the eastern gate
Last Line: One cannot put things off
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);grief; Sorrow;sadness


THE EMPEROR OF CHINA, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father was a dreadful bore
Last Line: And join in shouting hosanna!
Subject(s): China; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE EMPIRE OF CHINA IS CRUMBLING DOWN; DEDICATED TO WILLIAM ROSE BENET, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now let the generations pass
Last Line: "crumble down."
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): China; Confucius & Confucianism


THE FALL OF CH'OU, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jade pendants chime before the dawn audience
Last Line: Two hearts singing like chiming jade
Subject(s): China; Nature; Jade


THE FERRY, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of marsh-mallows my boat is made
Last Line: So long you tarry at the crossing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fear; Ferry Boats; Love - Complaints


THE FLOWER MARKET, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the royal city spring is almost over
Last Line: "would pay the taxes of ten poor houses."
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Flowers; Social Protest


THE GOLDEN PALACE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We go to the golden palace
Last Line: Through countless autumns enjoy like felicity
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);food & Eating


THE GRAIN-TRIBUTE, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There came an officer knocking by night at my door
Last Line: To return to others the corn in my great barn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Retirement; Taxes; Wages; Salaries


THE GREAT YELLOW RIVER INUNDATION IN CHINA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1887, and on the 28th of september
Last Line: For fear god punished you likewise for your iniquities.
Subject(s): China; Drowning; Floods; Rain; Rivers; Water


THE HARPER OF CHAO, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The singers have hushed their notes of clear song
Last Line: Day by day is covered deeper with dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Musical Instruments; Singing & Singers


THE HAT GIVEN TO THE POET BY LI-CHIEN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long ago a white-haired gentleman
Last Line: And the trees on your tomb are swayed by the autumn wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Hats; Winter


THE HERD BOY, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the southern village the boy who minds the ox
Last Line: And a dark smoke oozes through the thatched roof.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Shepherds & Shepherdesses


THE LETTER, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We talked together in the yung-shou temple
Last Line: That each letter changes into a bar of gold!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Letters


THE LIBERATOR; A POLITICAL ALLEGORY, by WU-TI (464-549)    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the high trees - many doleful winds
Last Line: And down again to thank the young man.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Politics & Government


THE LITTLE CART, by CH'EN TZU-LUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The little cart jolting and banging through the yellow haze of dusk
Last Line: They stand hesitating in the lonely road and their tears fall like rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wo-tzu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); War


THE LITTLE LADY (A CHILDREN'S SONG), by CH'ING HSI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her door opened on the white water
Last Line: All alone without a lover.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


THE LONG WAR, by LI PO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They fought last year by the upper valley of son-kan
Last Line: They have accomplished nothing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Army - China; Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The


THE MAN WHO DREAMED OF FAIRIES, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was once a man who dreamt he went to heaven
Last Line: For a single dream spoiled his whole life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Magic


THE MAN-WIND AND THE WOMAN-WIND, by SUNG YU    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hsiang, king of ch'u, was feasting in the orchid-tower palace
Last Line: "such is the woman-wind of the common people."
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Wind


THE OLD HARP, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of cord and cassia-wood is the harp compounded
Last Line: Because of the ch'iang flute and the ch'in flageolet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres


THE OLD MAN WITH THE BROKEN ARM, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At hsin-feng an old man - four-score and eight
Last Line: Ask the man with the broken arm in the village of hsin-feng!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Military


THE ORPHAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: To be an orphan
Last Line: Living with my brother and sister-in-law
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);orphans; Foundlings


THE OTHER SIDE OF THE VALLEY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a prisoner in the hands of the enemy
Last Line: To send and ransom me?
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);prisons & Prisoners


THE PEDLAR OF SPELLS, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An old man selling charms in a cranny of the town wall
Last Line: For he has a boy to lean on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse


THE PEOPLE OF TAO-CHOU, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the land of tao-chou
Last Line: "when boys are born the syllable ""yang"" is often used in their forename."
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


THE PHILOSOPHERS: LAO-TZU, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those who speak know nothing
Last Line: Of five thousand words?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Variant Title(s): Lao-tzu (the Philospher)
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Lao-tzu (6th Century)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 251, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the yellow river
Last Line: Because we keep ourselves blind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Yellow River, China; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 67, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow river is boundless
Last Line: You make an effort moving or still
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Yellow River, China


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 23, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was pickup from the first
Last Line: Count the times the yellow river has cleared
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Brothers; Chinese Literature; Yellow River, China; Half-brothers


THE POLITICIAN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was going to the city to sell the herbs I had plucked
Last Line: "at last he has made a ""coup"" that cannot fail!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Politics & Government


THE PORCELAIN COUPLE, by DONALD HALL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When jane felt well enough for me to leave her
Subject(s): China (porcelain); Home


THE PRISONER, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tartars led in chains
Last Line: "a han heart and a han tongue set in the body of a turk."
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Freedom; Prisons & Prisoners; Soldiers; Tatars; Liberty; Tartars


THE PRIVATE OF THE BUFFS; OR, THE BRITISH SOLDIER IN CHINA, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night, among his fellow roughs
Last Line: Because his soul was great.
Subject(s): China; Courage; Heroism; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines


THE RED COCKATOO, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sent as a present from annam
Last Line: And shut it up inside.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Anti-intellectualism; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Parrots


THE RED HILLS, by PAO CHAO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Red hills lie athwart us as a menace in the west
Last Line: Can he hope that his soldiers will give what is hardest to give?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ming-yuan; Bao Zhao
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Soldiers


THE REJECTED WIFE, by YUAN-TI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Entering the hall, she meets the new wife
Last Line: That her present pain will never come to an end.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love - Loss Of


THE RUINS OF LO-YANG, by TS'AO CHIH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I climb to the ridge of pei mang mountain
Last Line: I am heart-tied and cannot speak.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-chien
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Ruins


THE SCHOLAR IN THE NARROW STREET, by TSO SSU    Poem Text                    
First Line: Flap, flap, the captive bird in the cage
Last Line: And this should be the wise man's pattern.
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ai-ch'ung+(1)
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


THE SCHOLAR RECRUIT, by PAO CHAO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now / late I follow time's necessity
Last Line: What will become of me before it's all over?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ming-yuan; Bao Zhao
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Soldiers


THE SICK WIFE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She had been ill for years and years
Last Line: I will forget and never speak of her again
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);death; "dead, The;


THE SILVER SPOON, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To distant service my heart is well accustomed
Last Line: You will think of me and eat up your food nicely!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Gifts & Giving; Spoons


THE SINGING FLOWER, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am already a singing flower
Last Line: Your singing flower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Water; Nightmares; Ocean


THE TWO RED TOWERS; A SATIRE AGAINST CLERICALISM, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The two red towers / north and south rise facing each other
Last Line: I begin to fear that the whole world will become a vast convent.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Religion; Theology


THE VALLEY WIND, by LU YUN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Living in retirement beyond the world
Last Line: My cottage becomes a universe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shih-lung
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Retirement


THE WATERS OF LUNG-T'OU (THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER), by HSU LING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The road that I came by mounts eight thousand feet
Last Line: That I ever lived in the streets of hsien-yang.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hsiao-mu
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Frontier & Pioneer Life; Nature


THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF CHINA, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And all of them settled in china
Subject(s): China; Old Age; Travel


THESE DAYS ARE ABJECT AND CRAVEN, by JIANG SHIWEI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: But it could knock you over with one blow
Subject(s): China - Democracy


THINKING OF MY HOME IN CH'ANG-AN WHILE TRAVELING WITH THE ARMY...., by TS'EN SHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If only I could climb somewhere
Last Line: Blooms by a battlefield now
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


THIRTEEN COMPANION PIECES: BRIDGE OVER LAKE, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Its red railings and painted posts
Last Line: Crossing over the bridge
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


THIS WORLD IS A CONFUSION OF THREE WORLDS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dark figures of politics hover in the air
Subject(s): China; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THOUGHT AS I READ A BOOK, by ZHU XI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A pond as big as a courtyard
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


THOUGHTS FROM MEMORIES, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


THOUGHTS ON A QUIET NIGHT, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before my bed the light is so bright
Last Line: Lying back down I think of home
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


THOUGHTS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MY WIFE'S DEATH, by NARA SINGDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When will this misery end?
Last Line: My tears are gone, %ashes of paper rise
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Marriage; Mourning


THOUGHTS ON THE PAST AT TONG PASS, by ZHANG YANG-HAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here peaks and ridges seem to pass
Last Line: The common folk suffered %when kingdoms fell
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341)


THOUGHTS STIRRED ON MEETING THE GARDENER OF ROYAL ACADEMY IN NANJING, by WU WEI-YEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cold tides dashed on the ruined fort
Last Line: There was a pavilion to the south %where beech and bamboo gave off a light cool
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Ruins


THREE POEMS THINKING ON PAST TRAVELS: 1, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: For ten years I was a drifter
Last Line: From every temple's balcony
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel


THREE POEMS THINKING ON PAST TRAVELS: 2, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was outside cloud gate temple
Last Line: Of the pikes of the royal guard
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel


THREE POEMS THINKING ON PAST TRAVELS: 3, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here li bo wrote a poem
Last Line: That bloomed in a mountain rain
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Li Po (701-762); Travel


THRUSH, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred small whistles
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


TIAN WEN (HEAVENLY QUESTIONS), by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who passed down the story of the far-off, ancient beginning
Last Line: Fame of his loyalty spread throughout the world
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


TICKET, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: He hasn't got a ticket
Subject(s): China - Democracy; Longing


TO A CHINESE BRIDE, by VIRGINIA CONNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: You are the shadow of tall bamboo
Last Line: I await your palanquin by the wall of the blue pagoda.
Subject(s): Brides; China


TO A CHINESE GONG, by WINONA MONTGOMERY GILLILAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great shining disc of burnished brass
Last Line: "to summon ""foreign devils"" to their dinner."
Subject(s): China


TO A PORTRAIT PAINTER WHO DESIRED HIM TO SIT, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You, so bravely splashing reds and blues!
Last Line: What can I do with a portrait such as that?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Paintings And Painters; Portraits


TO ANOTHER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us sit now in the broad window
Last Line: That li po saw in the drowned rushes
Subject(s): Books; China; Legends; Li Po (701-762); Relationships


TO CENSOR TU AT THE CHANCELLERY, by TS'EN SHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We hurry in pairs up cinnabar steps
Last Line: The work of a censor I imagine is rare
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TO CHANG HSU AFTER DRINKING, by KAO SHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world is full of fickle people
Last Line: With a jug of wine by your bed
Alternate Author Name(s): Ta-fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TO GENERAL GAO, WHO SMASHED THE REBELLION FOR THE SON, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shocked, I looked at earth and sky
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TO HIS WIFE, by SU WU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since our hair was plaited and we became man and wife
Last Line: And if I die, we will go on thinking of each other.
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO HIS WIFE (1), by QIN JIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Liken man's life to morning dew
Last Line: Sorrow comes like tracing a ring - %the heart is no mat to be rolled away
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Grief; Longing; Love - Marital


TO HUANG JI-FU, by HUANG CHING-JEN+(1)    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am lodged by the northern sea
Last Line: With gibbons wailing across the creek %among miasmal vines
Subject(s): Absence; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


TO MY SONS, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


TO SECRETARY CH'IU ON AN AUTUMN NIGHT, by WEI YING-WU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out walking and singing of cooler days
Last Line: The recluse I suspect not yet asleep
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TO THE CITY OF NANKING, by LI PO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou that hast seen six kingdoms pass away
Last Line: To mingle with the abysms of the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Nanking, China


TO THE TUNE OF SAILING AT NIGHT (2), by MA CHIH-YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Think of the ch'in palace
Last Line: Dragon from snake on the stones
Subject(s): Change; China


TO VICE CENSOR CH'IAO, by CH'EN TZU-ANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The han court glorified clever officials
Last Line: What good is an old man's valor
Alternate Author Name(s): Po-yu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TOMBS AND RUMORS, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: We climb and then descend
Last Line: In the same moment is extinguished
Subject(s): China; Death; Graves; Talk


TONG-CAHO TOWER AT ZHENG-MAI STATION, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For the rest of my days I would grow old
Last Line: Is a hair's breadt line of green mountains, %and that is the heartland
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Exiles


TORMENTED, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bad poets all win public office
Last Line: I sought peace but found no peace - %the packs mock me, glaring, roaring
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Poetry And Poets


TOWARD A BORDER CROSSING, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What's he thinking, I'm thinking, the real live panda bear?
Last Line: Never looking back
Variant Title(s): China Lesso
Subject(s): China; Shenzhen, China


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. CHINA, A.D. 1900, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far in the interior of china
Last Line: And oddly enough has no intention of returning to those times.
Subject(s): China


TRANSPARENT GRIEF, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: My transparent grief %was filled with you
Last Line: Bathing the road in light
Subject(s): China - Democracy


TRAVELER'S THOUGHTS ON A SPRING EVENING, by TS'UEI T'U    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flowing water and falling petals have no pity
Last Line: Why fight over the mists of wuhu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TRAVELING AWAY FROM HOME, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fine wine of lanling with its turmeric scent
Last Line: They'll soon forget about their hometowns
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TRAVELING BY BOAT TO TAKE UP MY POST AT PI-LING, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can't stand the hearing the cries
Last Line: The streaks of candle soot
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


TRAVELING ON THE YANGTZE, by CH'IEN HSU    Poem Source                    
First Line: So close but plagued by wind and rain
Last Line: Any six dynasty monks still dwell
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TRAVELING ON THE YANGZI: 1, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great yangzi curves and embraces wuchang
Last Line: I dream that I am a butterfly still seeking flowers
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Yangzi River, China


TRAVELING ON THE YANGZI: 2, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Misty flowers have already entered cormorant bay
Last Line: This morning startled to find myself at han river's mouth
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Han River, China; Yangzi River, China


TRAVELING SOUTH OF THE YANGTZE, by TSU YUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mountains of ch'u never end
Last Line: But who will take them to loyang bridge
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TREADING THE SLEDGE, by WU WEN-YING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Glossy marble swathed in lace
Last Line: The evening wind in the kumi leaves %stirs sadness and reproach
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


TURKS ARE GONE!, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Harsh winds blow the frost
Last Line: How will I find fierce warriors to guard my land all around?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life


TURNING BACK AFTER SEEING THE FLOWERS, by LIU YONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I reckon up these hundred years
Last Line: Take my hand and we'll go there together
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


TWO COMPANION PIECES FOR LI TIAN-LIN: 1, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You've got to cut loose to learn poetry
Last Line: So tasty! -- what can I liken it to? -- %a frosty crab pickled in dregs of beer
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


TWO POEMS FOR SOMEONE FARAWAY: 1, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hibiscus newly fallen on the hills of shu
Last Line: Still climbs at full moon the mate-watching tower
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TWO POEMS FOR SOMEONE FARAWAY: 2, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: New rushes, though weak, show a steady green
Last Line: My sleeve's tear-soaked, the moon lights a thousand gates
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


TZE TEG SONG: 1, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At the time when blossoms
Last Line: "I said I must go, / because my silkworms were hungry"
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


TZU YEH SONG: 5, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have brought my pillow and am lying at the northern window
Last Line: How long do you think our love can last?
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.);love - Nature Of


TZU-TEG SONG: 2, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: All night I could not sleep
Last Line: "I kept on hearing a voice calling: / out of nowhere, nothing answered 'yes'"
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.);insomnia;night; Sleeplessness;bedtime


TZU-TEG SONG: 4, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I heard my love was going to yang-chou
Last Line: For a moment when you held me fast in your outstretched arms/I thought the river stood still and did
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


UGLY SLAVE, by XIN QIJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was young, I didn't know
Last Line: And say instead, 'cool weather -- a nice autumn'
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


UNCLASSIFIED POEM, by LIU ZHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The work in my office keeps piling up
Last Line: O to have such fleet feathers %and to bob in the waves along with you
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Office Work


UNCLASSIFIED POEM: 1, by CAO ZHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: High on the terrace are sad strong winds
Last Line: But its shape and shadow were suddenly gone, %its swift wingbeats wound my heart
Subject(s): Birds; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Escapes


UNCLASSIFIED POEM: 2, by CAO ZHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tumbleweed rolling, severed from root
Last Line: Keep going then, say no more! %brooding troubles make a man old
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


UNFAMILIAR SHORE, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: These sails are slack
Last Line: A gull swoops down, but will not light %on your outstretched hand
Subject(s): China - Democracy; Shadows


UNFINISHED POEM, by YU YOUZE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stood nailed to a prison wall
Last Line: The corner of my jacket flutters gently %like a rising flag
Subject(s): China - Democracy


UNTIL NO STONE IS LEFT, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Statues of chairman mao are everywhere in china
Last Line: They're not there. At all
Subject(s): China


UNTITLED, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sir, you come from my native home
Last Line: Did the cold plum sprout flowers or not
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China


VARIANT ON THE THE SONGS OF THE EAST AND WEST GATES, by TS'AO TS'AO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wild geese go north of the passes
Last Line: How can one forget home
Subject(s): Absence; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


VARIATION ON 'HARD TRAVELING', by WANG CH'ANG-LING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Towards evening the piping grew mournful
Last Line: In one battle you can get made a nobleman - %no more yearning now for the women's rooms!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wang Chang-ling
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life


VARIOUS OCCASIONS OF INTEREST IN FIELDS AND GARDENS: 15, by FAN CH'ENG-TA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Butterflies go in pairs
Last Line: Is here to sell his tea
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


VARIOUS OCCASIONS OF INTEREST IN FIELDS AND GARDENS: 31, by FAN CH'ENG-TA    Poem Source                    
First Line: At daybreak, out to weed the fields
Last Line: Are learning to plant melons
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


VARIOUS OCCASIONS OF INTEREST IN THE FIELDS AND GARDENS: 33, by FAN CH'ENG-TA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A traveler in the brown dust
Last Line: Is where the breeze is most cool
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


VARIOUS OCCASIONS OF INTEREST IN THE FIELDS AND GARDENS: 40, by FAN CH'ENG-TA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He calmly watches a spider weave
Last Line: To help them break the siege
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Insects; Spiders


VARIOUS OCCASIONS OF INTEREST IN THE FIELDS AND GARDENS: 44, by FAN CH'ENG-TA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A newly constructed threshing floor
Last Line: Until the day grows light
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


VARIOUS OCCASIONS OF INTEREST IN THE FIELDS AND GARDENS: 52, by FAN CH'ENG-TA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The burning sap of a pine brand
Last Line: Is twice as red as before
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


VARIOUS RESPONSES ON AN OCEAN VOYAGE: 1, by HUANG TSUN-HSIEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the years and months of my middle age
Last Line: In only one year I have received %twice the 'dawn of flowers'
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Middle Age; Sea Voyages


VERY EARLY MORNING EXERCISE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chan yuen is on the threshold of a remarkable career
Last Line: The first dawn glows at the end of the streets
Subject(s): Introspection; Men; Nanking, China


VICTORY MUSIC, by BO PU    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walk here all alone
Last Line: Don't make me hang taround till dawn!
Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341)


VIEW IN SPRING, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A kingdom smashed, its hills and rivers still there
Last Line: Fingers run through white hair until it thins, %cap-pins will almost no longer hold
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


VIEW OF THE SUNSET ON THE RIVER IN SPRING AS PAINTED, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A few branches of peach in blossom
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


VILLA ON ZHONG-NAN MOUNTAIN, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my middle years I came to much love the way
Last Line: By chance I meet old men in the woods; %we laugh and chat, no fixed time to turn home
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Quiet Life


VILLAGE DUSK, by LEI CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grass lines the pond and water lines the bank
Last Line: Aimlessly blowing a flute to no tune
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


VILLAGE EVENTS, by FAN CH'ENG-TA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green covers hills and plains and white fills the rivers
Last Line: Once silkworms are fed it's time to transplant rice
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


VISIT, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are long cries before any one opens
Last Line: My host does not arrive. I am alone
Subject(s): China; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude


VISIT TO THE SOUTH MOUNTAINS, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The south mountains block up earth and sky
Last Line: Reaching this place I repent my learning, %each dawn drawn nearer to groundless renown
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains


VISITING A PRIVATE GARDEN IN LATE SPRING, by WANG CHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once the plum casts off its faded charms
Last Line: And willows catkins hang across the mossy wall
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kung; Wang Ch'i
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


VISITING A PRIVATE GARDEN WITHOUT SUCCESS, by YE SHAOWONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: It must be because he hates dogs on his moss
Last Line: A branch of red blossoms reached past the wall
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


VISITING A SECLUDED GARDEN AND LEARNING THE OWNER IS AWAY, by YE SHAOWONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Visitors here trample the lichen
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


VISITING CHANG'S GARDEN AT THE BEGINNING OF SUMMER, by TAI MIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ducklings in a pond of deep and shallow water
Last Line: Beneath a loquat tree picked clean of gold
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


VISITING CRESCENT POND, by CH'ENG HAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: We circle the shore of crescent pond
Last Line: Let's meet again our next day off
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


VISITING HSUANTU TEMPLE AGAIN, by LIU YU-HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The temple's vast courtyard is now home to moss
Last Line: Old mister liu is back here again
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


VISITING JU-FA-YUAN TEMPLE WITH WANG QIU-CHENG AND ZHANG HE-CHAI, by HUANG JING-REN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I left the ancient temple in twilight mist
Last Line: And wondered where to find other hills %still red in the evening sun
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


VISITING PRINCESS CHANGNING'S POOL-FOR-SETTING-WINECUPS-AFLOAT, by SHANGGUAN WAN'ER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Propped up on staff, I looked over wispy peaks
Last Line: It was because I cherished this hidden rest
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


VISITING THE SOUTHERN PAVILION, by XIE LING-YUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Season's close, evening skies clear to translucence
Last Line: For whom can I clarify hopes and dreams? - %a mind that appreciates will know on its own
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


VISITING THE SOUTHERN PAVILION OF CHONGZHEN TEMPLE, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cloudy peaks fill my eyes, the clearness of spring is released
Last Line: I raise my head, envying the names on the roster of successful candidates
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


VISITING THE SOUTHERN TOWER OF CHONG-ZHEN TEMPLE, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cloud-covered hilltops fill my eyes
Last Line: And lifting my head in vain I covet %the publicly posted name
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Examinations


VISITING THE TEMPLE OF MOUNT HENG, THEN SPENDING THE NIGHT, by HAN YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ritual ranks of the five great peaks
Last Line: Till, gradually growing, the wintry sun %appeared off in the east
Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih
Subject(s): Buddhism; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountains; Temples


VISITING WEST-OF-THE-MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't laugh at the old farmers
Last Line: Knock at your gate one night
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


VOICES OF THE DEAD: IN CHINA, by JULIA DE BURGOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chiang kai-shek! And my bones? And my face without eyes?
Last Line: And I offer, certain, to raise the victory, %my voice of free dead, satisfied and avenged
Subject(s): China; Politics


WAITING FOR A FRIEND, by CHAO SHIH-HSIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: During plum season it rains on every roof
Last Line: I play a game of chess until the lamp goes out
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WAITING FOR THE TRAIN, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: These phantoms down the street, don't tell me
Last Line: The train's in, northbound, where cold begins
Subject(s): Family Life - China


WAKING UP IN EARLY SUMMER, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sour trace of plums squirts between my teeth
Last Line: I sit and watch my children chasing willow fuzz
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WALK IN THE WILDS, by HE ZHU    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the ford a tiny path
Last Line: Watching over her melons
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


WALKING ACROSS TIANANMEN SQUARE, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was walking across tiananmen square in the early
Last Line: Found in china - a haunting presence
Subject(s): China; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989


WALKING BACKWARDS IN BEIJING, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lost inside himself'
Last Line: And has yet to notice me
Subject(s): China


WALKING IN THE HILLS AND LOOKING FOR THE RECLUDE .. NOT FINDING HIM IN, by QIU WEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the very summit his thatched-roof hut
Last Line: The mood departed, I went downhill; %there was no longer need to wait for you
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests


WALKING IN THE WILDS, by LU YU (1125-1210)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Afternoon butterflies dance in the vegetable plot
Last Line: A good laugh is solace for life's last days
Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


WALKING THE CORPSE, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: More than once %farmer li had imagined
Last Line: Almost have been worth it
Subject(s): China


WANDERING TO THE TIAN-TAI MOUNTAINS, by SUN CHO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Utter void, hollow magnitudes, lacking all limit
Last Line: I blur the thousands of images by dark observation, %my body, insensate, identical with what is natu
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Mountains


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': DEER FENCE, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one is seen in deserted hills
Last Line: And shines once again upon the green moss
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': DOGWOOD STRAND, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: When they form their berries red and green
Last Line: I will set before him this dogwood cup
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Dogwood


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': FINE GRAINED APRICOT WOOD LODGE, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: I cut fine-grained apricot for its beams
Last Line: Would go off to make rain in the mortal world
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': GOLD DUST SPRING, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: You drink each day from gold dust spring
Last Line: Feathered ensigns go to jade emperor's court
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Health Resorts


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': HUA-ZI HILL, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: The birds in flight go off without ceasing
Last Line: When will this downcast mood reach its end?
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': JIN BAMBOO RIDGE, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lissome stalks shine in deserted bends
Last Line: And even the woodsmen do not know
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': LACQUER TREE GARDEN, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: That man of old was no disdainful clerk
Last Line: Several trees swayed there dancing
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': LAKE QI, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Playing the pipes we pass to far shores
Last Line: Hills' green is rolling the white clouds up
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': LODGE IN THE BAMBOO, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit alone in bamboo that hides me
Last Line: The bright moon comes to shine on me
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Quiet Life


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': MAGNOLIA DELL, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the tips of trees are lotus blossoms
Last Line: In tangled masses they blossom and fall
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Lotus


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': MAGNOLIA FENCE, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn hills draw in the last sunlight
Last Line: And nowhere is evening's haze to be found
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': NORTH COTTAGE, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: North cottage, north of lake waters
Last Line: Appear and vanish at green forest's edge
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': PAVILION OVERLOOKING THE LAKE, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: A light scull greets my worthy guest
Last Line: With lotuses blooming on every side
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': PEPPER TREE GARDEN, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cinnamon beaker greets the god's child
Last Line: To bring down the lord in the clouds
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': RAPIDS BY THE LUAN TREES, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moaning of wind in autumn rain
Last Line: A white egret flies up in alarm, then comes down
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': SOUTH COTTAGE, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: A light boat goes off to south cottage
Last Line: We can't tell them apart so far away
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': THE HOLLOW BY MENG'S WALLS, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: New home in a breach in meng's walls
Last Line: Pointless grief at the holding of men by force
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': THE LANE OF PALACE ASH TREES, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: A slanting path, shaded by palace ash
Last Line: Wary a mountain monk may come
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': WHITE STONE RAPIDS, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: White stone rapids are shallow and clear
Last Line: And gossamer washed in bright moonlight
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): Brooks; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': WILLOW WAVES, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lacy trees, touching in separate rows
Last Line: That suffer from parting in the spring breeze
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Willow Trees


WANG WEI, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At my window
Last Line: The moon.
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Poetry & Poets


WAR SEQUENCE: WAR ALTARS, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within the green jade temple of chapei
Last Line: The silent buddha sits and meditates.
Subject(s): China; World War Ii; Second World War


WASHING CREEK SANDS, by OU-YANG JIONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Speak no more when we meet
Last Line: That her lover was untrue?
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Unfaithfulness


WASHING CREEK SANDS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I roll away my books and poems
Last Line: And will not go to the emperor's court
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


WASHING CREEK SANDS, by YAN SHU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only a moment, this season's splendor
Last Line: The person before your eyes
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


WATCHING A HUNT, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind blows hard, the hornbow sings
Last Line: I turn to look where the eagle was shot: %a thousand miles of twilight clouds hang flat
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Hunting


WATCHING ANTS, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: When one of them chances to meet another
Last Line: Their wagon train is filled
Subject(s): Ants; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Insects


WATCHING THE TIDE ON 17TH OF AUGUST IN THE LUNAR CALENDAR, by CHEN SHIDAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: An alabaster rainbow
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


WATERING MY HORSE BY THE GREAT WALL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green, green the grass by the river
Last Line: It began, 'take care of yourself,' %and ended, 'I love you forever'
Subject(s): Absence; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Great Wall, China


WEEKEND EVENING, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind has lost its mind
Last Line: Cling to the world, or let it go
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): China - Democracy


WEST FIELDS: 1, by WU WEI-YEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You dig and build, of world's trouble weary
Last Line: We'll sit on the grass, drain a jug of beer, %and find some joy in the years that remain
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


WEST GATE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our west gate
Last Line: The miser who cannot bear to spend %wins only mocking in later days
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Pleasure


WHAT CAME TO ME IN A MOOD, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The plant does not die if you pull up the stalk
Last Line: All things have their root in a single force - %then why do they tear one another down?
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WHAT CAME TO MIND WHEN CHANTING MY POEMS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lazy and sickly, with much free time
Last Line: Two thousand leagues apart we are - %so far off he knows not when a poem is done
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Poetry And Poets


WHAT CHINESE MEN HAVE TO SING ABOUT, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chinese men, %when they are by themselves
Last Line: Unless it is just that
Subject(s): China


WHAT I SAW ON THE NORTHERN OUTSKIRTS OF ZHEN-ZHOU, by WANG SHIH-CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cloud cover pressed on the city walls
Last Line: But the wind blew down the last of the snow
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


WHAT THE STUDENTS KNEW, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: They knew that china had long suffered from political
Last Line: Including their very lives, at risk
Subject(s): China


WHAT WAS IN MY HEART ON A SPRING DAY, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rains drip the sprouts out
Last Line: Then frenzied songs and frenzied laughter come
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Spring


WHEN HOPE COMES BACK; FOR SHU TING, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's nothing left
Last Line: Hope's back. %what more can I ask?
Subject(s): China - Democracy


WHEN I BLINK, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm convinced
Last Line: I try to stare at it without blinking
Subject(s): China - Democracy


WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND IN MY PRIME, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: When I think of this, it makes me shudder
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


WHEN LIVING QUIETLY AT WANG-CHUAN I GAVE THIS TO PEI DI, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cold mountains grow ever more azure gray
Last Line: Now once again I meet jie yu, the drunk, %that reckless singer before the five willows
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Quiet Life


WHEN PEOPLE RISE FROM CHEESE, STATEMENT #1, by LI SHIZHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Songs, but the bloody revolution goes unnoticed
Last Line: From far away there comes marching a troop %of smoking people
Subject(s): China - Democracy


WHEN THE GREAT CHINESE PAPERMAKERS CAME TO CUBA, GREAT POETS FOLLOWED, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because of the great stillness, a silence so deep it made the pink carp
Last Line: Surfaces, this heavenly paperupon which to write a firest, lasting word
Subject(s): China; Cuba; Paper; Poetry & Poets


WHEN THE PEOPLE AROSE FROM CHEESE, by LI SHIZHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The songs ignored the blood of revolution
Last Line: In the distance, another legion approaches
Subject(s): China - Democracy


WHERE CONFUCIUS IS, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am writing this
Last Line: Let confucius eat
Subject(s): China


WHERE I'VE BEEN ALL MY LIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sirs, in our youth you love the sight of us
Last Line: Come die with me in the mosques of rotterdam.
Subject(s): China; Ethnic Identity; Identity; Netherlands; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Self-consciousness; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips; Feminism


WHERE YANGZI MEETS THE HAN, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wanderer, homesick, where yangzi meets han
Last Line: They need not take to the distant road
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Homesickness


WHILE DRINKING AT THE CHUCHIANG WATERWAY: 1, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each flying petal diminishes the spring
Last Line: What use is mere fame if it weighs a person down
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WHILE DRINKING AT THE CHUCHIANG WATERWAY: 2, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every day after court I pawn my spring clothes
Last Line: Enjoy your time together and don't fight
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WHITE DEW WETS THE MOOR-GRASSES, FR. NINETEEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


WHITE EGRET, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Splashing on stones, the rapids' sounds
Last Line: It stands there alone with dignitty, %thoughts even more serene
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Egrets


WILLOWWARE, by JULIA RANDALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandmother, I have broken the last plate
Subject(s): China (porcelain)


WILLOWWARE CUP, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mass hysteria, wave after breaking wave
Subject(s): China (porcelain)


WILLOWWARE CUP, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mass hysteria, wave after breaking wave
Last Line: Tilted honeycombs, thunderhead blue
Subject(s): China (porcelain)


WIND ENTERS PINES, by WU WEN-YING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I listened to the wind and listened to rain
Last Line: And moss on the secret stairs grows all night long
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


WINDOW IN THE CLIFF, by ZHAO ZHENKAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wasp arouses the flower with terrible thrusts
Last Line: In the market, women are buying spring
Subject(s): China - Democracy


WINDOW VIEW FROM A SHANGHAI HOTEL, by STEPHEN SHU-NING LIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind gives spasmodic moans this evening
Last Line: Wept for me, and will not weep again?
Subject(s): Family Life - China


WING TEE WEE, by J. P. DENISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, wing tee wee / was a sweet chinee
Last Line: And the maids are false, -- as everywhere.
Subject(s): China; Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


WINTER LONGING, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the naked tree an enromous crow
Last Line: Are there no tadpoles anywhere %wriggling, searching for green coral?
Subject(s): China - Democracy; Longing


WINTER NIGHT, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My bed is so empty that I keep on waking up
Last Line: Oh that those were waves which could carry me back to you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing; Winter


WINTER NIGHT, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dwell in poverty, kin and friends scattered
Last Line: It has been like this four years now, %one thousand and three hundred nights
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Night


WINTER NIGHT, by TU LEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: For a winter-night guest tea serves as wine
Last Line: But with plum blossoms now it's different
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WINTER SCENE, by LIU K'O-CHUANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love to wake to morning light beneath a frosted window
Last Line: May I never part from such delights again
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WINTER SOLSTICE EVE, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven's times and man's affairs hurry us along
Last Line: I tell my son to finish my wine
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WITH THE ARMY: 5, by WANG CAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I kept faring down roads choked with weeds
Last Line: The poet once praised a 'happy land' - %though a stranger here, I still wish to stay
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Travel


WITH THE ARMY; A BALLAD, by WANG JIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The house of han pursues the khan
Last Line: I have heard tell that in western liang-zhou %in every household the women weep
Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life


WITH THE ARMY; A BALLAD, by WANG CH'ANG-LING    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bugle blown set marchers in motion
Last Line: We have bound the necks of their foremost chiefs %and go back to present them to the emperor
Alternate Author Name(s): Wang Chang-ling
Subject(s): Army - China; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Frontier And Pioneer Life


WOMAN, by FU HSUAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How sad it is to be a woman
Last Line: Than they whose parting is like ts'an and ch'en.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hsiu-i; Fu Xuan
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Women


WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Near where I live in beijung
Last Line: She doesn't even know her own secrets
Subject(s): China


WOMAN WHO RAISES SILKWORMS, by ZHANG YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: She went into the city yesterday
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


WONG OF THE WHITE SNOW; SENDING OFF ASSISTANT WU ON RTEURN TO CAPITAL, by TS'EN SHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The north wind rolls up the earth
Last Line: Leaving only the marks in the snow %to show where your horse has passed
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Frontier And Pioneer Life


WRITING OF MY SORROW, by MEI YAO-CH'EN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heaven took my wife from me
Last Line: This gaunt and worn ghost in the mirror
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Death - Children; Grief


WRITING ON THE WALL OF THE RIVER KIOSK, by KOU ZHUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a scattering
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


WRITTEN AT AN INN IN LINAN, by LIN SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hills upon hills pavilions beyond pavilions
Last Line: They mistake hangchou for pienchou
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WRITTEN AT CHULIN TEMPLE, by CHU FANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The months and years compel our lives
Last Line: The welcome of chulin temple
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WRITTEN AT HUAINAN TEMPLE, by CH'ENG HAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Traveling north heading south stopping where they can
Last Line: Let the evening hills share each other's sorrow
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WRITTEN AT MY WANG RIVER RETREAT AFTER A STEADY RAIN, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Steady rain deserted woods and finally kitchen smoke
Last Line: Why then do the seagulls still suspects me
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WRITTEN AT NIGHT AT AN INN IN THE HILLS: 2, by HUANG JING-REN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The city people are different
Last Line: And watch the fish and dragons come, %to drink in the light
Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)


WRITTEN AT SECRETARY WANG'S BAMBOO TOWER, by LI CHIA-YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: An idle upright official laughs at the high and mighty
Last Line: Wearing his silk hat he naps beside gulls
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WRITTEN AT THE SOUTH TOWER OF OCHOU, by HUANG CHING-JEN+(1)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mountain light meets water light everywhere I look
Last Line: Together from the south they bring something cool
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WRITTEN AT THE SUNGTING RELAY STATION, by CHANG HU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hill shapes merge with the far-off sky
Last Line: Not here among the five lakes
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WRITTEN AT WAN MOUNTAIN POOL, by MENG HAO-JAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sat on a boulder, let my fishing line hang
Last Line: Moving in moonlight, I turn back with a rowing song
Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran
Subject(s): Han River, China; Nature; Nymphs


WRITTEN CROSSING THE YELLOW RIVER TO QING-HE, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boat set sail upon the great river
Last Line: I turn to gaze back toward my homeland - %only vast floods that stretch to the clouds
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Travel


WRITTEN DURING THE RAIN ONE NIGHT AND SENT BACK NORTH, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You asked when I was coming back
Last Line: And speak back about this moment %of night rain in hills of ba?
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Rain


WRITTEN IN THE PALACE, by LI ANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The shanglin woods are in bloom
Last Line: How vast is the view from on high
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WRITTEN ON A SCREEN, by LIU CHI-SUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twittering swallows gossip in the rafters
Last Line: I grab my staff and jug and head for mushroom mountain
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WRITTEN ON A WALL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A pile of dry rushes in total disarray
Last Line: Slowly steadily giving off heat
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WRITTEN ON MISTER LAKESHADE'S WALL, by WANG ANSHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Below your thatched eaves you've swept away the moss
Last Line: Two peaks swing open and welcome the blue
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WRITTEN ON PARTING FROM MR. TING, by TS'AO CHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: On foot I climb pei-mang slope
Last Line: Thinking of the place I used to live, %my breath chokes up and will not let me speak
Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-chien
Subject(s): China - Civil Wars


WRITTEN ON THE CHAN-ZI TEMPLE IN YANG-ZHOU, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rain passes, a cicada's piercing cry
Last Line: The singing and piping that is yang-zhou?
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Temples; Yang-zhou (city), China


WRITTEN ON THE KAI-YUAN TEMPLE AT XUAN-ZHOU, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Xie tiao's mansion from the southern dynasties
Last Line: I linger here with my flagon of wine, %and watch spring rain in the hills ahead
Subject(s): China - Southern Dynasties; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Hsieh T'iao (xie Tiao) (464-499)


WRITTEN ON THE LAKE, RETURNING FROM THE CHAPEL AT STONE CLIFF, by XIE LING-YUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dawnlight to dusk, transmuted the atmosphere
Last Line: These words I send to those nurturing life: %just try using this way to search for it
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Zen Buddhism


WRITTEN ON THE WALL OF AN INN, by CHENG HUI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A raspberry-scented dream dispels the chill of spring
Last Line: According to my count he should be in changshan
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WRITTEN ON THE WALL OF HU YIN'S HOUSE, by WANG ANSHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You clean the thatched roofs so frequently
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


WRITTEN ON THE WALL OF MASTER YI'S MEDITATION HUT, by MENG HAO-JAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Accustomed my friend to the stillness of zen
Last Line: I know the mind impervious to stain
Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WRITTEN ON THE WALL OF THE LINAN HOTEL, by LIN SHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green mountains shadow green mountains
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


WRITTEN ON THE WALL OF XILIN MONASTERY, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold this world horizontally
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


WRITTEN PLAYFULLY TO ZHANG JI, by HAN YU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Li bo's and du fu's writings endure
Last Line: I will lend you a sash of flying red cloud; %you can join me up here, winging high and low
Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Li Po (701-762); Poetry And Poets; Tu Fu (712-770)


WRITTEN WHILE DRUNK, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I built my house near where others dwell
Last Line: But when I start to tell it, I cannot find the words
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Truth


WRITTEN WHILE SERVING AT JADE HALL, by HUNG TZU-K'UEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The forbidden gates are locked and silent
Last Line: Moonlight floods the myrtle-lined steps
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


WU-ZHEN MONASTERY, by WANG ANSHIH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stream in the wild running zigzag
Last Line: The path is almost gone
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


XI SHI (SORROW FOR TROTH BETRAYED), by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oppressed by each day's new signs of age and decay
Last Line: What would distinguish him from common cattle
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


YAN JI-SHENG, CHANCELLOR OF EDUCATION ... VISIT THE PEI GARDEN, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: As soon as the boat shoved off
Last Line: Fish and turtles in countless numbers %came out within the waves
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


YANG PAN-ER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I happened to go out before white gate
Last Line: And I am the brazier where it burns
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


YANG-ZHOU, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soil of yang-zhou's thunder basin tomb
Last Line: Half removes his cloak of purple fur
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Yang-zhou (city), China


YANG-ZHOU ANDANTE, by JIANG KUI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Famed metropolis east of the huai
Last Line: Do they come again year after year?
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Yang-zhou (city), China


YEARS AGO, WHEN I HEARD THE WORDS OF MY ELDERS, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: No use leaving post-mortem trusts
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


YEARS VANISH LIKE THE MORNING DEW, by MEI SHENG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I drive my chariot up to the eastern gate
Last Line: And clothe our bodies in robes of satin and silk.
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Death; Dead, The


YELLOW CRANE TOWER, by TS'UI HAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man rode off on a crane long ago
Last Line: Mist on the river only means sorrow
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905)


YELLOW RIVER AT BIAN-ZHOU BLOCKED BY ICE, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: When a thousand miles of long river
Last Line: Flowing on eastward by night and day %and no one can tell
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Ice; Yellow River, China


YESTERDAY, by GU CHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday %coils in the corner
Last Line: To circumvent %the second coming
Subject(s): China - Democracy; Violence


YOU WILL DIE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You have coats and robes
Last Line: And another will take your place
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);death; "dead, The;


YOUNG RUAN RETURNS, by YAN JIDAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here at the world's edge dew turns to frost
Last Line: Which tears at the heart
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278)


YU FU (THE FISHERMAN), by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are not you the lord of the three wards?
Last Line: With that he was gone, and did not speak again
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


YUAN YOU (FAR-OFF JOURNEY), by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grieved by the parlous state of this world's ways
Last Line: And entered the neighbourhood of the great beginning
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


YUJIE XING: THE LANTERN FESTIVAL IN BEIJING, by XU CAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Having watched the decorated lanterns, I move away on fragrant clogs
Last Line: Let alone next year's moon
Subject(s): Beijing, China; Festivals


YUN'ER'S BELL, by YUN'ER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first month, early auspicious, dinghai day
Last Line: Protect and strike this bell!
Subject(s): Bells; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


ZHAO YIN SHI (SUMMONS FOR A RECLUSE), by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cassia trees grow thick
Last Line: In the mountains you cannot stay long
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


ZHONG AND GUO, by WILLIAM SLAUGHTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Zhong and guo are the characters that, put together
Last Line: Seen it, still heavy with meaning for china's future
Subject(s): China


ZI-YE SONG, by HSIAO YEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In her yearning it seems she wants to come closer
Last Line: White fingers stroke the charming strings
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


ZI-YE SONGS OF THE FOUR SEASONS. SPRING: 10, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flowers so lovely in the spring groves
Last Line: Blows open wide my skirts of gauze
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Spring


ZI-YE SONGS OF THE FOUR SEASONS. SPRING: 6, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cuckoo is singing in the bamboo
Last Line: Their gauze skirts trail through fragrant grass
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Spring


ZI-YE SONGS OF THE FOUR SEASONS. SPRING: 9, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Skirt of gauze, tight red sleeves
Last Line: Wanton and seeking a like-hearted man
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Spring


ZI-YE SONGS OF THE FOUR SEASONS. WINTER: 13, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where will we tie our true-love-knot?
Last Line: And the hard frosts will freeze me to death
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Winter


ZI-YE SONGS: 1-2, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I went out the gates at sinset
Last Line: And on purpose let me see you
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


ZI-YE SONGS: 12, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At dawn I long to go out the gates
Last Line: But my heart in secret thinks of you
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


ZI-YE SONGS: 16, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My love was taken by another
Last Line: Which is to say: 'close no more'
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Unfaithfulness


ZI-YE SONGS: 19, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When my love is sad, I'm also down
Last Line: From different roots shared branches rise?
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.)


ZI-YE SONGS: 20, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was moved by how lovig you were at first
Last Line: All glitter outside, nothing deep with
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Superficiality


ZI-YE SONGS: 23, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who can feel longing and not sing out?
Last Line: So upset that I can't help thinking of you
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Longing


ZI-YE SONGS: 24, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I held my dress, not tying the sash
Last Line: If it opens a bit, just blame the spring wind
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Flirtation


ZI-YE SONGS: 33, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night lasted on, I could not sleep
Last Line: And I wasted an answering 'yes!' to the sky
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Love


ZI-YE SONGS: 36, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am that star at the dipper's end
Last Line: In the east at dawn, at dusk turning west
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fidelity


ZIU ZHANG (NINE PIECES): 1. GRIEVING I MAKE MY PLAINT, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grieving I make my plaint, to give my sorrows rein
Last Line: To cherish these my delights in a private place
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


ZIU ZHANG (NINE PIECES): 2. CROSSING THE RIVER, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was young I loved this rare apparel
Last Line: With true heart long I pondered; then suddenly I set forth
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


ZIU ZHANG (NINE PIECES): 3. A LAMENT FOR YING, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: High heaven is not constant in its dispensations
Last Line: By day and night I never can forget
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


ZIU ZHANG (NINE PIECES): 4. THE OUTPOURING OF SAD THOUGHTS, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My heart is clouded over with melancholy thoughts
Last Line: But my melancholy finds no course; to whom can these words be uttered
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


ZIU ZHANG (NINE PIECES): 5. EMBRACING SAND, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the teeming late summer
Last Line: To noble men I here plainly declare that I will be numbered with %such as you
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


ZIU ZHANG (NINE PIECES): 6. THINKING OF A FAIR ONE, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thinking of a fair one
Last Line: With my thoughts all on peng xian bending
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


ZIU ZHANG (NINE PIECES): 7. ALAS FOR THE DAYS GONE BY, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alas for the days gone by! When I was trusted
Last Line: But for thought of my blinded lord and his lack of understanding
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


ZIU ZHANG (NINE PIECES): 8. IN PRAISE OF THE ORANGE TREE, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fairest of all god's trees, the orange came and settled here
Last Line: In your acts like bo yi: I set you up as my model
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)


ZIU ZHANG (NINE PIECES): 9. GRIEVING AT THE EDDYING WIND, by CH'U YUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grieving at the eddying wind that shakes the orchid blossoms
Last Line: But what good did it do to clasp a great stone and drown
Alternate Author Name(s): Qu Ping; Qu Yuan
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.)