Chinese & Japanese

Shao Yung

11th century AD


Shao Yung was a philosopher and poet of the Sung dynasty. His poem here is a verse of drinking and moderation.

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. A Struggle

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