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Meng Hao-jan

689–740

Meng Hao-jan (689–740) was the inseparable friend of the poet Wang Wei. He spent the first forty years of his life in study, but having failed to obtain his doctor’s degree he returned to the hills of his native province and gave his remaining years to composition.

The poems here are L. Cranmer-Byng’s versions in A Lute of Jade (1909), given with the poet’s name as spelled in those books.

Poems (21)

  1. The Lost One
  2. A Friend Expected
  3. Waiting
  4. In Dreamland
  5. At Anchor
  6. A Reverie in a Summer-house
  7. A Night-Mooring on the Chien-te River
  8. A Spring Morning
  9. A Message from Lake Tung-t'ing
  10. On Climbing Yen Mountain with Friends
  11. At a Banquet in the House of the Taoist Priest Mei
  12. On Returning at the Year's End to Chung-nan Mountain
  13. Stopping at a Friend's Farm-house
  14. From Ch'in Country to the Buddhist Priest Yüan
  15. From a Mooring on the T'ung-lu to a Friend in Yang-chou
  16. Taking Leave of Wang Wêi
  17. Memories in Early Winter
  18. On Climbing Orchid Mountain in the Autumn
  19. In Summer at the South Pavilion
  20. At the Mountain-Lodge of the Buddhist Priest Ye Waiting in Vain for My Friend Ting
  21. Returning at Night to Lu-men Mountain

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