Chinese & Japanese

Hsieh T’iao

5th century AD


Hsieh T’iao lived in the fifth century AD. His “Song of the Men of Chin-ling” was written for troops marching back into the capital.

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

  1. Song of the Men of Chin-ling
  2. A Lowly Flower

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