Chinese & Japanese

Liu Yü-hsi

AD 772–842


Liu Yü-hsi (AD 772–842) was a T’ang official and poet, known for verses of the seasons and of the court.

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. Summer Dying
  2. The Odalisque
  3. The City of Stones. (Nanking)
  4. Blacktail Row
  5. A Spring Song
  6. In the Temple of the First King of Shu
  7. Thoughts of Old Time at West Fort Mountain

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