INTRODUCTION/023 TANG DYNASTY (618-907) / 2 YU SHINAN/ 4 The Firefly/ 4 KONG SHAO’AN / 6 Falling Leaves / 6 WANG JI / 8 The Wineshop / 8 MONK OF COLD HILL / 10 Long, Long the Pathway to Cold Hill / 10 WANG BO / 12 Prince Teng’s Pavilion / 12 Farewell to Prefect Du / 14 YANG JIONG / 16 I Would Rather Fight / 16 LUO BINWANG / 18 The Cicada Heard in Prison / 18 WEI CHENGQING / 20 Southbound, I Part from My Younger Brother / 20 SONG ZHIWEN / 22 Crossing the River Han / 22 SHEN QUANQI / 24 The Garrison at Yellow Dragon Town / 24 HE ZHIZHANG / 26 The Willow / 26 Homecoming / 26 CHEN ZI’ANG / 28 On Climbing the Tower at Youzhou / 28 ZHANG YUE / 30 My Delayed Departure for Home / 30 ZHANG JIULING / 32 Since My Lord from Me Parted / 32 ZHANG RUOXU / 34 A Moonlit Night on the Spring River / 34 WANG WAN / 38 Passing by the Northern Mountains / 38 WANG HAN / 40 Starting for the Front / 40 WANG ZHIHUAN / 42 On the Heron Tower / 42 Out of the Great Wall / 42 MENG HAORAN / 44 Spring Morning / 44 Mooring on the River at Jiande / 44 LI QI / 46 An Old War Song / 46 WANG CHANGLING / 48 On the Frontier / 48 Sorrow of a Young Bride in Her Boudoir / 48 WANG WEI / 50 The Deer Enclosure / 50 The Dale of Singing Birds / 50 Parting among the Hills / 52 Love Seeds / 52 Blue Fields in Mist or Rain / 54 Thinking of My Brothers on Mountain-Climbing Day / 54 A Farewell Song / 54 WANG YA / 56 Farewell to Spring / 56 LIU SHENXU / 58 A Scholar’s Retreat / 58 LI BAI / 60 The Moon over Mount Brow / 60 Watching from Afar the Waterfall on Mount Lu / 60 A Trader’s Wife / 62 Thoughts on a Silent Night / 64 Seeing Meng Haoran Off at Yellow Crane Tower / 64 Invitation to Wine / 66 Drinking Alone Under the Moon / 68 Mount Skyland Ascended in a Dream – A Song of Farewell / 70 Sitting Alone Facing Peak Jingting / 74 Farewell to a Friend / 74 CUI HAO / 76 Yellow Crane Tower / 76 ZHANG XU / 78 To a Guest in the Hills / 78 CHANG JIAN / 80 A Buddhist Retreat in a Ruined Mountain Temple / 80 GAO SHI / 82 Song of the Northern Frontier / 82 CHU GUANGXI / 86 The Fishing Bay / 86 XU ANZHEN / 88 My Neighbor’s Lute / 88 ZHANG WEI / 90 Early Mume Blossoms / 90 WAN CHU / 92 A Dancer at Dragon-Boat Festival / 92 LIU CHANGQING / 94 Seeking Shelter in Lotus Hill on a Snowy Night / 94 DU FU / 96 Gazing at Mount Tai / 96 Song of the Conscripts / 98 Spring View / 102 The Pressgang at Stone Moat Village / 104 Written at Random (V) / 106 Welcome Rain on a Spring Night / 106 Recapture of the Regions North and South of the Yellow River / 108 Ode to Autumn (I) / 108 On the Heights / 110 Coming across Li Guinian on the Southern Shore of the Yangtze River / 110 CEN SHEN / 112 Song of White Snow in Farewell to Secretary Wu, Going Back to the Capital / 112 Song of Running-Horse River in Farewell to General Feng on His Western Expedition / 114 LIU FANGPING / 116 A Moonlit Night / 116 YANG YUHUAN / 118 Dancing / 118 YUAN JIE / 120 Drinking Song on Stone Fish Lake / 120 ZHANG JI / 122 Mooring near Maple Bridge at Night / 122 QIAN QI / 124 To the Returning Wild Geese / 124 JIA ZHI / 126 Spring Thoughts / 126 HAN HONG / 128 Cold-Food Day / 128 SIKONG SHU / 130 Farewell to a Friend / 130 ZHANG ZHIHE / 132 Tune: “A Fisherman’s Song” / 132 DAI SHULUN / 134 Tune: “Song of Flirtation” / 134 LI DUAN / 136 The Zitherist / 136 WEI YINGWU / 138 On the West Stream at Chuzhou / 138 Tune: “Song of Flirtation” / 138 LU LUN / 140 Grief in Autumn / 140 LI YI / 142 On Hearing a Flute at Night atop the Victor’s Wall / 142 LYRICS FROM DUNHUANG / 144 Tune: “Buddhist Dancers” / 144 Tune: “The Magpie on a Branch” / 146 Tune: “Silk-Washing Stream” / 148 MENG JIAO / 150 Song of the Parting Son / 150 Successful at the Civil Service Exam / 150 CUI HU / 152 Written in a Village South of the Capital / 152 RONG YU / 154 Leaving the Lakeside Pavilion While Moving House / 154 ZHANG JI / 156 Reply of a Chaste Wife / 156 WANG JIAN / 158 Waiting for Her Husband / 158 Tune: “Song of Flirtation” / 158 HAN YU / 160 Written for My Grandnephew at the Blue Pass / 160 ZHANG ZHONGSU / 162 In Reverie / 162 The Pavilion of Swallows (I) / 162 The Pavilion of Swallows (II) / 164 The Pavilion of Swallows (III) / 164 LIU YUXI / 166 Reply to Bai Juyi, Whom I Meet for the First Time at a Banquet in Yangzhou / 166 The Autumn Breeze / 166 Tune: “Bamboo-Branch Song” (I) / 168 Tune: “Bamboo-Branch Song” (II) / 168 Tune: “Ripples Sifting Sand” / 170 Drinking Before Peonies in Bloom / 170 BAI JUYI / 172 The White-Haired Palace Maid / 172 The Old Charcoal Seller / 176 The Everlasting Regret / 178 Song of a Pipa Player / 186 A Flower in the Haze / 192 The Last Look at the Peonies at Night / 192 The Pavilion of Swallows (I) / 194 The Pavilion of Swallows (II) / 194 The Pavilion of Swallows (III) / 196 Sunset and Moonrise on the River / 196 LI SHEN / 198 The Peasants (I) / 198 The Peasants (II) / 198 LIU ZONGYUAN / 200 Fishing in Snow / 200 Drinking / 202 LI SHE / 204 Lodging Again at the Southern Pass / 204 CUI JIAO / 206 To the Maid of My Aunt / 206 YUAN ZHEN / 208 To My Deceased Wife (II) / 208 At an Old Palace / 208 Chrysanthemum / 210 Thinking of My Dear Departed / 210 JIA DAO / 212 My Lord’s Garden / 212 A Note Left for an Absent Recluse / 212 ZHANG HU / 214 Swan Song / 214 LIU ZAO / 216 Farther North / 216 HUANGFU SONG / 218 Tune: “Dreaming of the South” / 218 ZHU QINGYU / 220 To an Examiner on the Eve of Examination / 220 LI HE / 222 Twenty-three Horse Poems (I) / 222 Twenty-three Horse Poems (IV) / 222 Twenty-three Horse Poems (V) / 224 Twenty-three Horse Poems (XXIII) / 224 XU NING / 226 To One in Yangzhou / 226 YONG YUZHI / 228 To the Riverside Willow / 228 XU HUN / 230 Gazing Afar in the Evening from the West Tower of Xianyang / 230 DU MU / 232 Ruined Splendor / 232 Spring Abides Not / 234 Moored on River Qinhuai / 236 Parting / 236 The Day of Mourning for the Dead / 236 YONG TAO / 238 The Bridge of Love’s End / 238 LI CHEN ET AL / 240 To a Waterfall / 240 WEN TINGYUN / 242 Tune: “Buddhist Dancers” / 242 Tune: “Song of Water Clock at Night” / 244 Tune: “Dreaming of the South” / 244 CHEN TAO / 246 The Riverside Battleground / 246 LI SHANGYIN / 248 The Sad Zither / 248 On the Plain of Tombs / 248 To One Unnamed (I) / 250 To One Unnamed (II) / 252 To One Unnamed/ 254 LI QUNYU / 256 To a Deserted Lover / 256 CUI JUE / 258 Elegy on Li Shangyin / 258 ZHAO JIA / 260 On the Riverside Tower / 260 CAO YE / 262 The Rats in the Public Granary / 262 LUO YIN / 264 To a Singing Girl / 264 For Myself / 264 To the Parrot / 266 Snow / 266 WEI ZHUANG / 268 Tune: “Song of a Lady’s Crown” (I) / 268 Tune: “Song of a Lady’s Crown” (II) / 270 HUANG CHAO / 272 To the Chrysanthemum / 272 The Chrysanthemum / 272 NIE YIZHONG / 274 Poor Peasants / 274 ZHANG JIE / 276 The Pit Where Emperor Qin Burned the Classics / 276 CAO SONG / 278 A Year of War / 278 CUI DAORONG / 280 A Cloak of Spring / 280 JIN CHANGXU / 282 A Complaint in Spring / 282 WANG JIA / 284 After the Rain / 284 ZHANG BI / 286 To My Love / 286 ANONYMOUS / 288 The Golden Dress / 288