Chinese & Japanese

Ch’üan Te-yü

AD 759–818


Ch’üan Te-yü (AD 759–818) was a T’ang official and poet. His poem here is a brief verse addressed to a bride.

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. Hope
  2. The Jade Dressing-Table

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