Chinese & Japanese

Chang Chiu-ling

d. AD 740


Chang Chiu-ling (died AD 740) was a T’ang minister and poet. Giles prints one poem of his, a lover’s moonlit longing.

The poems here are Herbert A. Giles’s versions in Chinese Poetry in English Verse (1898), given with the poet’s name as spelled in that book.

  1. By Moonlight
  2. Reflections
  3. Pride and Humility
  4. Looking at the Moon and Thinking of One Far Away
  5. Orchid and Orange (A Plea for Official Preferment)

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