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Chinese & Japanese

Li Shang-yin

AD 813–858

Li Shang-yin (AD 813–858) was a late T’ang poet, admired for allusive and elegant verse.

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.

Poems (25)

  1. The Night Comes
  2. Souvenirs
  3. The Pleasures of a Simple Life with Nature
  4. The Lo-yu Tombs
  5. A Note on a Rainy Night to a Friend in the North
  6. A Message to Secretary Ling-hu
  7. There Is Only One
  8. The Suei Palace
  9. The Jade Pool
  10. To the Moon Goddess
  11. Chia Yi
  12. A Cicada
  13. Wind and Rain
  14. Falling Petals
  15. Thoughts in the Cold
  16. North among Green Vines
  17. The Inlaid Harp
  18. To One Unnamed
  19. The Palace of the Suei Emperor
  20. To One Unnamed
  21. In the Camp of the Sketching Brush
  22. To One Unnamed
  23. Spring Rain
  24. To One Unnamed
  25. The Han Monument

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