Chinese & Japanese

Wang An-shih

AD 1021–1086


Wang An-shih (AD 1021–1086) was a Sung statesman and reformer, and also a poet.

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 White Night
  2. At the Parting Ways

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