Chinese & Japanese

Li Tuan

8th or 9th century AD


Li Tuan is dated by Giles to the 8th or 9th century AD. His poem here is on the power of music.

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. Music Hath Charms
  2. On Hearing Her Play the Harp

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