Chinese Poems
Author:Various
Publication date:2016-08-15
ISBN:1160003200155
Language:English
Abstract:
The initiative of this little book was accidental. One day in the early part of last summer, feeling weary of translating commercial documents, I opened a volume of Chinese poetry that was lying on my desk and listlessly turned over the pages. As I was doing so my eye caught sight of the phrase, 'Re...
Introduction
The initiative of this little book was accidental. One day in the early part of last summer, feeling weary of translating commercial documents, I opened a volume of Chinese poetry that was lying on my desk and listlessly turned over the pages. As I was doing so my eye caught sight of the phrase, 'Red rain of peach flowers fell.' That would be refreshing, I said to myself, on such a day as this; and then I went on with my work again. But in the evening I returned to the book of Chinese poetry and made a free translation of the poem in which I had seen the metaphor quoted above. The translation seemed to me and some friends pleasantly readable; so in leisure hours I have translated some more poems and ballads, and these I now venture to publish in this volume, thinking that they may interest readers in other lands, and also call forth criticism that will be useful in preparing a larger volume which I, or some better qualified scholar, may publish hereafter; for it can hardly be said that the field of Chinese poetry has been widely explored by foreign students of the Chinese language.
Book catalogue
COPYRIGHT
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CHINESE POEMS
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PREFACE
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CONTENTS
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A FEW REMARKS ON THE HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION OF CHINESE POETRY
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THE TECHNIQUE OF CHINESE POETRY
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES OF A FEW OF THE MORE EMINENT CHINESE POETS
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CHINESE POEMS
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Only a Fragrant Spray
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The River By Night in Spring
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The Beauty of Snow
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A Maiden's Reverie
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A Song of the Marches
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The Cowherd and the Spinning-Maid[5]
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The Old Soldier's Return
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On the Lake near the Western Mountains
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The Happy Farmer
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An Old House Unroofed by an Autumn Gale
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The Lament of the Ladies of the Siang River[7]
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The Waters of the Mei-Pei
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The Swallow's Song[17]
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Farewell to a Comrade
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Beauty's Fatal Snare[23]
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A Reverie in a Summer-house
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The Flower-Seller[27]
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The Red-Flower Pear-Tree
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A Song of Princess Tze-Yuh[31]
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Distaste for Official Life
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The Fragrant Tree
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A Song of the Snow
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The Old Temple among the Mountains
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A Soldier's Farewell to his Wife
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The Wanderer's Return
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The Pleasures of a Simple Life with Nature
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Listening to the Playing on a Lute in a Boat
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Reflections on the Past[41]
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A Lowly Flower
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On returning to a Country Life
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The Brevity of Life
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Conscripts leaving for the Frontier[43]
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Estimating the Value of a Wife
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The Lady Lo-Fu
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An Autumn Evening in the Garden
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Muh-Lan[45]
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The Old Fisherman
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Midnight in the Garden
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Reflections on the Brevity of Life
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So-fei gathering Flowers
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A Farewell[48]
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The Khwun-ming Lake
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Reflections
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Pride and Humility[55]
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Dwellers in the Peach Stream Valley[57]
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The Five Sons
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The Journey Back
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The Gallant Captain and the Innkeeper's Wife
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The Lady Chao-Chiün[64]
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Night on the Lake
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The Fishermen's Song
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The Students' Ramble[66]
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The Priest of T'ien Mountain
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Maidens By the River-side
62
The Poet-Beggar
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