Chinese & Japanese

Li Ch'i

graduated AD 725


Li Ch'i, a T'ang poet, took his degree at the government examinations in AD 725. The poems here are farewells, frontier songs and poems on music.

The poems here are Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu's versions in The Jade Mountain (1929), given with the poet's name as spelled in that book.

  1. A Farewell to Wêi Wan Bound for the Capital
  2. An Old Air
  3. A Farewell to My Friend Ch'ên Chang-fu
  4. A Lute Song
  5. On Hearing Tung Play the Flageolet
  6. On Hearing An Wan-shan Play the Reed-pipe
  7. An Old War-Song

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