Poetry Codex

Chinese & Japanese

Tu Mu

AD 803–852

Tu Mu (AD 803–852) was a late T’ang poet, known for polished quatrains on history, travel and love.

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.

Poems (13)

  1. A Lost Love
  2. The Old Place
  3. The Last Night
  4. Lovers Parted
  5. I Climb to the Lo-yu Tombs Before Leaving for Wu-hsing
  6. By the Purple Cliff
  7. A Mooring on the Ch'in-huai River
  8. A Message to Han Cho the Yang-chou Magistrate
  9. A Confession
  10. In the Autumn Night
  11. Parting
  12. The Garden of the Golden Valley
  13. A Night at the Tavern

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