Chinese & Japanese

Ch’eng Hao

AD 1032–1085


Ch’eng Hao (AD 1032–1085) was a Sung philosopher, one of the founders of Neo-Confucian thought, who also wrote verse.

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. Insouciance
  2. Spring Fancies

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