Chinese & Japanese

Wang Po

AD 648–676


Wang Po (AD 648–676) is counted among the four eminent poets of the early T’ang dynasty. He died young, by drowning on a voyage.

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. Ichabod
  2. A King of Tang
  3. Farewell to Vice-Prefect Tu Setting Out for His Official Post in Shu

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