Table of Contents

PREFACE
WANG WEI
Introduction
A Spring Day at the Farm
Watching the Hunt
To Secretary Su
Autumn Evening in the Mountains
Walking in Mountains in the Rain
Late Spring: Mr. Yen and His Friends Come to Visit
My Mount Chungnan Cottage
Spring in the Garden
Watching It Snow and Thinking of My Friend, the Hermit Hu
Passing the Temple of Accumulated Fragrance
Returning to My Cottage
Floating on a Marsh
LI PO
Introduction
A Clear Wet Dawn
Drinking in Moonlight
For Tu Fu
Grotto Garden
Talking Leave of a Friend
Listening to the Monk Chun Play His Lute
She Thinks of Him
‘Fighting South of the Ramparts’
Goodbye at the River
To Wang Lun
High in the Mountains, I Fail to Find the Wise Man
Little Elegy
Conversation Among Mountains
Waking Up Drunk on a Spring Day
Indulgence
Blue Water Song
Autumn Lines
TU FU
Introduction from Five Hundred Words about My Journey from the Capital to Feng-Hsien
A Moonlit Night
Spring Scene
The P’eng-ya Road
Meandering River
For Li Po
In the City on Business I Meet One Friend and We Spend the Night Eating and Drinking at the House of Another
Thinking of My Brothers on a Moonlit Night
New Moon
Rain on a Spring Night
Seven for the Flowers Near the River
Weary Night
Spring
Watching Fireflies
Five Poems on the Autumn Fields
White Horse
LI HO
Introduction
Twelve Poems on the Months
Big Song
Among Ruins
Song of the Screen
Meditation
Dawn in Stone City
Magic Strings I
Magic Strings II
Finding an Arrowhead on an Old Battlefield
A Beautiful Girl Combs Her Hair
LI SHANG-YIN
Introduction
Things I Can’t Stand Hearing
The Overdecorated Lute
A Riddle and a Gift
Untitled Love Poem I
Untitled Love Poem II
Untitled Love Poem III
Untitled Love Poem IV
Untitled Love Poem V
Double Poem of Adultery •Three for the Goddess of the Moon
Spring Rain
Fallen Flowers
In Exile
Letter Home