More Translations from the Chinese

About this eBook

Contributor

Bai, Juyi, 772-846

Credits

Produced by David Starner, Jonathan Niehof and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PL: Language and Literatures: Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania

Subject

Chinese poetry -- Translations into English

Category

Text

eBook-No.

16500

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16500

Release Date

August 10, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MORE TRANSLATIONS FROM THE CHINESE — BY
2. 2.ARTHUR WALEY
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION — EVENING — [ a.d. 835 ] — IN EARLY SPRING ALONE CLIMBING THE T‘IEN-KUNG PAGODA — [ a.d. 389 ]
5. 5.CH‘U YÜAN — [1] THE GREAT SUMMONS
6. 6.WANG WEI — [2] PROSE LETTER
7. 7.LI PO — [3-5] DRINKING ALONE BY MOONLIGHT — [ Three Poems ] — I — II — III — [6] IN THE MOUNTAINS ON A SUMMER DAY — [7] WAKING FROM DRUNKENNESS ON A SPRING DAY — [8] SELF-ABANDONMENT — [9] TO TAN CH‘IU — [10] CLEARING AT DAWN
8. 8.PO CHU-I — LIFE OF PO CHU-I — [11] AFTER PASSING THE EXAMINATION — [ a.d. 800 ] — [12] ESCORTING CANDIDATES TO THE EXAMINATION HALL — [ a.d. 805 ] — [13] IN EARLY SUMMER LODGING IN A TEMPLE TO ENJOY THE MOONLIGHT — [ a.d. 805 ] — [14] SICK LEAVE — [ While Secretary to the Deputy-Assistant-Magistrate of Chou-chih, near Ch‘ang-an, in a.d. 806 ] — [15] WATCHING THE REAPERS — [ a.d. 806 ] — [16] GOING ALONE TO SPEND A NIGHT AT THE HSIEN-YU TEMPLE — [ a.d. 806 ] — [17] PLANTING BAMBOOS — [ a.d. 806 ] — [18] TO LI CHIEN — [ Part of a Poem ] — [ a.d. 807 ] — [19] AT THE END OF SPRING — To Yüan Chēn. [1] [ a.d. 810 ] — [20] THE POEM ON THE WALL — [ a.d. 810 ] — [ Yüan Chēn wrote that on his way to exile he had discovered a poem inscribed by Po Chü-i, on the wall of the Lo-k‘ou Inn. ] — [21] CHU CH‘ĒN VILLAGE — [ a.d. 811 ] — [22] FISHING IN THE WEI RIVER — [ a.d. 811 ] — [23] LAZY MAN’S SONG — [ a.d. 811 ] — [24] ILLNESS AND IDLENESS — [ Circa a.d. 812 ] — [25] WINTER NIGHT — [ Written during his retirement in 812 ] — [26] THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS IN THE EASTERN GARDEN — [ a.d. 812 ] — [27] POEMS IN DEPRESSION, AT WEI VILLAGE — [ a.d. 812 ] — [1] — [2] — [28] TO HIS BROTHER HSING-CHIEN, WHO WAS SERVING IN TUNG-CH‘UAN — [ a.d. 815 ] — [29] STARTING EARLY FROM THE CH‘U-CH‘ĒNG INN — [ a.d. 815 ] — [30] RAIN — [ a.d. 815 ] — [31] THE BEGINNING OF SUMMER — [ a.d. 815 ] — [32] VISITING THE HSI-LIN TEMPLE — [ Written during his exile ] — [33] PROSE LETTER TO YÜAN CHĒN — [ a.d. 818 ] — [34] HEARING THE EARLY ORIOLE — [ Written in exile ] — [35] DREAMING THAT I WENT WITH LU AND YU TO VISIT YÜAN CHĒN — [ Written in exile ] — [36] THE FIFTEENTH VOLUME — [ Having completed the fifteenth volume of his works, the poet sends it to his friends Yüan Chēn and Li Chien, with a jesting poem. ] — [ Written in 818 ] — [37] INVITATION TO HSIAO CHÜ-SHIH [1] — [ Written when Governor of Chung-Chou ] — [38] TO LI CHIEN — [ a.d. 818 ] — [39] THE SPRING RIVER — [ a.d. 820 ] — [40] AFTER COLLECTING THE AUTUMN TAXES — [41] LODGING WITH THE OLD MAN OF THE STREAM — [ a.d. 820 ] — [42] TO HIS BROTHER HSING-CHIEN — [ a.d. 820 ] — [43] THE PINE-TREES IN THE COURTYARD — [ a.d. 820 ] — [44] SLEEPING ON HORSEBACK — [ a.d. 822 ] — [45] PARTING FROM THE WINTER STOVE — [ a.d. 822 ] — [46] GOOD-BYE TO THE PEOPLE OF HANGCHOW — [ a.d. 824 ] — [47] WRITTEN WHEN GOVERNOR OF SOOCHOW — [ a.d. 825 ] — [48] GETTING UP EARLY ON A SPRING MORNING — [ Part of a poem written when Governor of Soochow in 825 ] — [49] LOSING A SLAVE-GIRL — [ Date uncertain ] — [50] THE GRAND HOUSES AT LO-YANG — [ Circa a.d. 829 ] — [51] THE CRANES — [ a.d. 830 ] — [52] ON HIS BALDNESS — [ a.d. 832 ] — [53] THINKING OF THE PAST — [ a.d. 833 ] — [54] A MAD POEM ADDRESSED TO MY NEPHEWS AND NIECES — [ a.d. 835 ] — [55] OLD AGE — [ Addressed to Liu Yü-hsi, who was born in the same year ] — [ a.d. 835 ] — [56] TO A TALKATIVE GUEST — [ a.d. 836 ] — [57] TO LIU YU-HSI — [ a.d. 838 ] — [58] MY SERVANT WAKES ME — [ a.d. 839 ] — [59] SINCE I LAY ILL — [ a.d. 840 ] — [60] SONG OF PAST FEELINGS [With Preface] — [ Circa a.d. 840 ] — [61] ILLNESS — [ Written circa 842, when he was paralyzed ] — [62] RESIGNATION
9. 9.YÜAN CHEN — [63] THE STORY OF TS‘UI YING-YING — [64] THE PITCHER — [ a.d. 779-831 ]
10. 10.PO HSING-CHIEN — [65] THE STORY OF MISS LI
11. 11.WANG CHIEN — [66] HEARING THAT HIS FRIEND WAS COMING BACK FROM THE WAR — [67] THE SOUTH
12. 12.OU-YANG HSIU — [68] AUTUMN
13. 13.APPENDIX

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