A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems
PART II
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INTRODUCTION 105
BY PO CHÜ-I:
An Early Levée 115
Being on Duty all night in the Palace and dreaming of the Hsien-yu Temple 116
Passing T’ien-mēn Street in Ch’ang-an and seeing a distant View of Chung-nan Mountain 116
The Letter 117
Rejoicing at the Arrival of Ch’ēn Hsiung 118
Golden Bells 119
Remembering Golden Bells 120
Illness 120
The Dragon of the Black Pool 121
The Grain-tribute 123
The People of Tao-chou 123
The Old Harp 125
The Harper of Chao 125
The Flower Market 126
The Prisoner 127
The Chancellor’s Gravel-drive 131
The Man who Dreamed of Fairies 132
Magic 134
The Two Red Towers 135
The Charcoal-seller 137
The Politician 138
The Old Man with the Broken Arm 139
Kept waiting in the Boat at Chiu-k’ou Ten Days by an adverse Wind 142
On Board Ship: Reading Yüan Chēn’s Poems 142
Arriving at Hsün-yang 143
Madly Singing in the Mountains 144
Releasing a migrant “Yen” (wild Goose) 145
To a Portrait Painter who desired him to sit 146
Separation 147
Having climbed to the topmost Peak of the Incense-burner Mountain 148
Eating Bamboo-shoots 149
The Red Cockatoo 149
After Lunch 150
Alarm at first entering the Yang-tze Gorges 150
On being removed from Hsün-yang and sent to Chung-chou 151
Planting Flowers on the Eastern Embankment 152
Children 153
Pruning Trees 154
Being visited by a Friend during Illness 155
On the way to Hangchow: Anchored on the River at Night 155
Stopping the Night at Jung-yang 156
The Silver Spoon 156
The Hat given to the Poet by Li Chien 157
The Big Rug 157
After getting Drunk, becoming Sober in the Night 158
Realizing the Futility of Life 158
Rising Late and Playing with A-ts’ui, aged Two 159
On a Box containing his own Works 160
On being Sixty 161
Climbing the Terrace of Kuan-yin and looking at the City 162
Climbing the Ling Ying Terrace and looking North 162
Going to the Mountains with a little Dancing Girl, aged Fifteen 163
Dreaming of Yüan Chēn 163
A Dream of Mountaineering 164
Ease 165
On hearing someone sing a Poem by Yüan Chēn 165
The Philosophers 166
Taoism and Buddhism 167
Last Poem 168