Chinese & Japanese

Han Wu

8th or 9th century AD


Han Wu is dated by Giles to the 8th or 9th century AD. His poem here is a moment of quiet contemplation.

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. Contemplation
  2. Cooler Weather

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