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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHINA - EARLY PERIOD (TO 200 B.C.) Matches Found: 246 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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.) 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 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 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.) 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 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 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: 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: 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 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.) 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 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.) 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: 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.) 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 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.) 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 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 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 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.) 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.) 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.) 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.) 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 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.) 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.) 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 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 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.) 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.) 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.) 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.) 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.) 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.) 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 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 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 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 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.) 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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.) 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 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.) 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 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 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.) 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 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 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.) 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.) 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.) 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 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.) 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.) 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.) 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 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.) 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.) 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.) 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 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 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 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 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 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 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; 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.) 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.) 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 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.) WHITE DEW WETS THE MOOR-GRASSES, FR. NINETEEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.) 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 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.) 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 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; 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.) 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.) 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.) |
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