Chinese & Japanese

Wang Han

8th century AD


Wang Han is dated by Giles to the 8th century AD. His poem here is a soldier’s drinking song.

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 Reason Fair
  2. A Song of Liang-chou

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