Kao Shih

Kao Shih (c. AD 700) was, Cranmer-Byng says, one of the most fascinating of all the T’ang poets: first a poor youth, then the lover of an actress, a secretary on a mission to Tibet, a soldier, and finally a poet of renown.

The poems here are L. Cranmer-Byng’s versions in A Lute of Jade (1909), given with the poet’s name as spelled in those books.