Chinese & Japanese

Liu Heng

d. 157 BC


Liu Heng, who died in 157 BC, is the name Giles prints over a lament for a father’s death. Liu Heng is the personal name of the Han emperor known as Wen-ti.

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. On the Death of His Father

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