The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry (3 page)

    
To the Tune of “Spring at Wu Ling”

    
To the Tune of “Silk-Washing Brook”

    
To the Tune of “Dream Song”

    
To the Tune of “Immortal by the River”

    
To the Tune of “Lone Wild Goose”

    
To the Tune of “The Fisherman's Song”

    
To the Tune of “Butterflies Adore Blossoms”

    
LU YOU
(
1125–1210
)

    
On the Fourth Day of the Eleventh Month During a Windy Rainstorm

    
Record of Dream, Sent to Shi Bohun, to the Tune of “Night Roaming in the Palace”

    
Thinking of Going Outside on a Rainy Day

    
To the Tune of “Phoenix Hairpin”

    
The Sheng Garden

    
To My Sons

    
TANG WAN
(
UNCERTAIN DATES
)

    
Tang Wan's Reply, to the Tune of “Phoenix Hairpin”

    
YANG WANLI
(
1127–1206
)

    
Cold Sparrows

    
XIN QIJI
(
1140–1207
)

    
Written on a Wall in the Boshan Temple, to the Tune of “Ugly Servant”

    
The Night of the Lantern Festival, to the Tune of “Green Jade Table”

    
Village Life, to the Tune of “Clear Peaceful Happiness”

    
JIANG KUI
(
1155–1221
)

    
Preface to “Hidden Fragrance” and “Sparse Shadows”

    
Hidden Fragrance

    
Sparse Shadows

    
YAN RUI
(
FL. C. 1160
)

    
To the Tune of “Song of Divination”

    
YUAN HAOWEN
(
1190–1257
)

    
Living in the Mountains

    
Dreaming of Home

    
from
In May of 1233, I Ferried Across to the North

    
WU WENYING
(
C. 1200-C. 1260
)

    
Departure, to the Tune of “The Song of
Tangduo”

    
To the Tune of “Washing Creek Sands”

    
To the Tune of “Prelude to Oriole Song”

    
LIU YIN
(
1249–1293
)

    
Reading History

    
Mountain Cottage

YUAN DYNASTY
(
1280–1367
)

    
ZHENG YUNNIANG
(
UNCERTAIN DATES
)

    
The Song of Shoes

    
To the Tune of “West River Moon”

    
ZHAO MENGFU
(
1254–1322
)

    
Guilt at Leaving the Hermit's Life

    
Poem in the J
eju
Form

    
MA ZHIYUAN
(
C. 1260–1334
)

    
To the Tune of “Thinking About Nature”

    
Autumn Thoughts, to the Tune of “Sky-Clear Sand”

    
Autumn Thoughts, to the Tune of “Sailing at Night”

    
GUAN DAOSHENG
(
1262–1319
)

    
Love Poem

    
Fisherman's Song

    
JIE XISI
(
1274–1344
)

    
Written on a Cold Night

    
Fishing Folk

    
A Portrait of Ducks

    
SA DUCI
(
C. 1300-C. 1355
)

    
from
Shangjing Instant Poems

    
Autumn Day by a Pond

    
To a
Zheng
Player

MING DYNASTY
(
1368–1644
)

    
ZHANG YU
(
1333–1385
)

    
Song of the Relay Boats

    
GAO QI
(
1336–1374
)

    
Where Is My Sorrow From?

    
Passing by a Mountain Cottage

    
Lying Idle While It Rains

    
SHEN ZHOU
(
1427–1509
)

    
Inscription for a Painting

    
Thoughts Sent to a Monk

    
ZHU YUNMING
(
1461–1527
)

    
Taking a Nap by a Mountain Window

    
TANG YIN
(
1470–1524
)

    
In Reply to Shen Zhou's Poems on Falling Petals

    
Boating on Tai Lake

    
Thoughts

    
XU ZHENQING
(
1479–1511
)

    
Written at Wuchang

    
YANG SHEN
(
1488–1599
)

    
On Spring

    
WANG SHIZHEN
(
1526–1590
)

    
Saying Good-bye to My Young Brother

    
Climbing Up the Taibai Tower

    
GAO PANLONG
(
1562–1626
)

    
Idle in Summer

    
XIE ZHAOZHE
(
1567–1624
)

    
Spring Complaints

    
YUAN HONGDAO
(
1568–1610
)

    
At Hengtang Ferry

    
ANONYMOUS EROTIC POETRY, COLLECTED BY FENG MENGLONG
(
1574–1646
)

    
Untitled

    
A Dragging Cotton Skirt

    
Clever

    
Lantern

    
The Bento Box

    
Shooting Star

    
The Boat

    
A Boat Trip

    
A Nun in Her Orchid Chamber Solitude Feels Lust Like a Monster

    
We're Only Happy About Tonight

    
ZHANG DAI
(
1597–1684
)

    
from
Ten Scenes of the West Lake: Broken Bridge in Melting Snow

QING DYNASTY
(
1644–1911
)

    
JI YINHUAI
(
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
)

    
Improvised Scene Poem

    
WANG WEI
(
C. 1600-C. 1647
)

    
To the Tune of “Drunk in the Spring Wind”

    
FENG BAN
(
1602–1671
)

    
A Poem in Jest

    
WU WEIYE
(
1609–1672
)

    
On Meeting an Old Flame, to the Tune of “Immortal by the River”

    
HUANG ZONGXI
(
1610–1695
)

    
A Stray Poem Written While Living in the Mountains

    
QIAN CHENGZHI
(
1612–1693
)

    
A Stray Poem Written in the Fields

    
NALANXINDE
(
1654–1685
)

    
To the Tune of “Endless Longing”

    
To the Tune of “Washing Creek Sands”

    
To the Tune of “Bodhisattva Barbarian”

    
To the Tune of “Mulberry-Picking Song”

    
WANG JIULING
(
D. 1710
)

    
Inscription for an Inn

    
ZHENG XIE
(
1693–1765
)

    
On Painting Bamboo for Governor Bao in My Office in Wei County

    
Homecoming Song

    
YUAN MEI
(
1716–1798
)

    
from
Improvisations

    
A Scene

    
On the Twelfth Day of the Second Month

    
An Improvisation

    
Meeting a Visitor

    
Sitting Still

    
Inscription for a Painting

    
A Poem Sent to Fish Gate

    
from
Twenty-two Miscellaneous Poems on the Lake

    
Temple in the Wild

    
Mocking Myself for Planting Trees

    
JIANG SHIQUAN
(
1725–1785
)

    
A Comment on Wang Shigu's Painting Portfolio

    
ZHAO YI
(
1727–1814
)

    
from
Reading at Leisure

    
In a Boat
340
On Poetry

    
from
Poem Composed While Living at Houyuan Garden

    
WU ZAO
(
1799–1863
)

    
To the Tune of “Song of Flirtation”

    
To the Tune of “Beautiful Lady Yu”

    
Feelings Recollected on Returning from Fahua Mountain
on a Wintry Day, to the Tune of “Waves Scour
the Sands”

    
To the Tune of “A Song of the Cave Immortals”

    
To the Tune of “Clear and Even Music”

    
To the Tune of “Washing Creek Sands”

    
QIU JIN
(
1879–1907
)

    
A Poem Written at Mr. Ishii's Request and Using the Same
Rhymes as His Poem

    
Letter to Xu Jichen

    
SU MANSHU (THE HALF MONK)
(
1884–1918
)

    
from
Ten Narrative Poems

    
To the Zither Player

FROM MODERN TO CONTEMPORARY
(1911-Present)

    
MAO ZEDONG
(
1893–1976
)

    
Changsha

    
Tower of the Yellow Crane

    
Warlords

    
Kunlun Mountain

    
Loushan Pass

    
Snow

    
from
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease

    
To Guo Moruo

    
XU ZHIMO
(
1895–1931
)

    
You Deserve It

    
Farewell Again to Cambridge

    
WEN YIDUO
(
1899–1946
)

    
Miracle

    
Perhaps

    
The Confession

    
The Heart Beats

    
Dead Water

    
The End

    
LI JINFA
(
1900–1976
)

    
Abandoned Woman

    
LIN HUIYIN
(
1904–1955
)

    
Sitting in Quietude

    
DAI WANGSHU
(
1905–1950
)

    
A Chopped-off Finger

    
A Rainy Lane

    
Written on a Prison Wall

    
FENG ZHI
(
1905–1993
)

    
Sonnet 1. “Our hearts are ready to experience”

    
Sonnet 2. “Whatever can be shed we jettison”

    
Sonnet 6. “I often see in the wild meadows”

    
Sonnet 16. “We stand together on a mountain's crest”

    
Sonnet 21. “Listening to the rainstorm and the wind”

    
Sonnet 23. (
ON A PUPPY
)

    
Sonnet 24. “A thousand years ago this earth”

    
Sonnet 27. “From freely flowing water, undefined”

    
Al QING
(
1910–1996
)

    
Gambling Men

    
BIAN ZHILIN
(
1910-
)

    
Entering the Dream

    
Fragment

    
Loneliness

    
Migratory Birds

    
Train Station

    
HE QIFANG
(
1912–1977
)

    
Autumn

    
Shrine to the Earth God

    
LUO FU
(
1928-
)

    
Song of Everlasting Regret

    
BEI DAO
(
1949-
)

    
Night: Theme and Variations

    
Ordinary Days

    
Country Night

    
A Decade

    
Response

    
A Step

    
Elegy

    
Nightmare

    
Many Years

    
Sweet Tangerines

    
A Formal Declaration

    
Ancient Monastery

    
Requiem

    
The Morning's Story

    
Coming Home at Night

    
Rebel

    
Asking the Sky

    
Untitled

    
Delivering Newspapers

    
DUO DUO
(
1951-
)

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