Category: Poetry
[Due to the method of transliteration used in this text, including many accent marks (and some strange ones), please refer to the following chart to see how these words originally appeared, and how they are presented in this text. In each case, the line with the letters is the...
But now perturbed, engulfed, distressed, worn out, I move about the river and lake at my leisure. I have been out of office for two years, but the effect of this man's words is...
3. Chapter 3Li Po gives us Watteau-like pictures of life in Ch`ang-an before the flight of the Emperor. The younger poet paints, with the brush of Verestchagin, the realism and horrors of c...
2. Chapter 2To Confucius, as has been already stated, is due that groundwork of Chinese poetry -- the Odes. But the master gave his fellow countrymen an ethical system based upon sound comm...
1. Chapter 1[Due to the method of transliteration used in this text, including many accent marks (and some strange ones), please refer to the following chart to see how these words original...
5. Chapter 5The peach blooms open on the eastern wall -- I breathe their fragrance, laughing in the glow Of golden noontide. Suddenly there comes The revelation of the ancient wind, Floodin...