Chinese & Japanese

Fu Hsüan

d. AD 278


Fu Hsüan died in AD 278. Waley gives him two poems: a quiet night-piece on contentment with poverty, and “Woman,” a famous lament on the lot of women.

The poems here are Arthur Waley’s versions in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918), given with the poet’s name as spelled in those books.

  1. A Gentle Wind
  2. Woman

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