Poetry Codex

Chinese & Japanese

Lu Yu

1125–1209

Lu Yu (1125–1209) was a poet of the Sung dynasty. The four short poems here are Waley’s versions of village scenes and a day on the water.

The poems here are Arthur Waley’s versions in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918), given with the poet’s name as spelled in those books.

Poems (7)

  1. The Pedlar of Spells
  2. Boating in Autumn
  3. The Herd-boy
  4. How I Sailed on the Lake till I Came to the Eastern Stream
  5. Song of Three Gorges
  6. A Song of the Snow
  7. The Old Fisherman

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