Chinese & Japanese

Tai Shu-lun

9th century AD


Tai Shu-lun is dated by Giles to the 9th century AD. His poem here is a New Year’s Eve alone at an inn.

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. New Year's Eve at an Inn
  2. Chancing on Old Friends in a Village Inn

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