Chinese & Japanese

Mei Sheng

2nd century BC


Mei Sheng is dated by Giles to the 2nd century BC, in the early Han dynasty. Two of his short poems appear in Giles’s anthology.

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. Neglected
  2. Parted

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