Chinese & Japanese

Wang Chi

c. AD 700


Wang Chi is dated by Waley to about AD 700. His two short poems here are on wine and the contentment of a modest life.

The poems here are Arthur Waley’s versions in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918), given with the poet’s name as spelled in those books.

  1. Tell Me Now
  2. On Going to a Tavern
  3. In Absence

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