Chinese Poems
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Compiled by a leading scholar of Chinese poetry, Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown is the first collection of Chan (Zen) poems to be situated within Chan thought and practice. Combined with exquisite paintings by Charles Chu, the anthology compellingly captures the ideological and literary nuances of works that were composed, paradoxically, to "say more by saying less," and creates an unparalleled experience for readers of all backgrounds.Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown includes verse composed by monk-poets of the eighth to the seventeenth centuries. Their style ranges from the direct vernac...
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- CHINESE POEMS
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- A FEW REMARKS ON THE HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION OF CHINESE POETRY
- THE TECHNIQUE OF CHINESE POETRY
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES OF A FEW OF THE MORE EMINENT CHINESE POETS
- CHINESE POEMS
- Only a Fragrant Spray
- The River By Night in Spring
- The Beauty of Snow
- A Maiden's Reverie
- A Song of the Marches
- The Cowherd and the Spinning-Maid[5]
- The Old Soldier's Return
- On the Lake near the Western Mountains
- The Happy Farmer
- An Old House Unroofed by an Autumn Gale
- The Lament of the Ladies of the Siang River[7]
- The Waters of the Mei-Pei
- The Swallow's Song[17]
- Farewell to a Comrade
- Beauty's Fatal Snare[23]
- A Reverie in a Summer-house
- The Flower-Seller[27]
- The Red-Flower Pear-Tree
- A Song of Princess Tze-Yuh[31]
- Distaste for Official Life
- The Fragrant Tree
- A Song of the Snow
- The Old Temple among the Mountains
- A Soldier's Farewell to his Wife
- The Wanderer's Return
- The Pleasures of a Simple Life with Nature
- Listening to the Playing on a Lute in a Boat
- Reflections on the Past[41]
- A Lowly Flower
- On returning to a Country Life
- The Brevity of Life
- Conscripts leaving for the Frontier[43]
- Estimating the Value of a Wife
- The Lady Lo-Fu
- An Autumn Evening in the Garden
- Muh-Lan[45]
- The Old Fisherman
- Midnight in the Garden
- Reflections on the Brevity of Life
- So-fei gathering Flowers
- A Farewell[48]
- The Khwun-ming Lake
- Reflections
- Pride and Humility[55]
- Dwellers in the Peach Stream Valley[57]
- The Five Sons
- The Journey Back
- The Gallant Captain and the Innkeeper's Wife
- The Lady Chao-Chiün[64]
- Night on the Lake
- The Fishermen's Song
- The Students' Ramble[66]
- The Priest of T'ien Mountain
- Maidens By the River-side
- The Poet-Beggar
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