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Wang Wei

AD 699–759

Wang Wei (AD 699–759) was a T’ang poet, painter and devout Buddhist, famous for quiet poems of landscape and friendship.

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 (37)

  1. Overlooked
  2. Goodbye
  3. A Rencontre
  4. Goodbye to Meng Hao-jan
  5. After an Imperial Audience at Dawn in the "Palace of Great Brilliance"
  6. The Blue-green Stream
  7. Farm House on the Wei Stream
  8. While Roses Fall
  9. Deer-Park Hermitage
  10. In a Retreat Among Bamboos
  11. A Parting
  12. One-Hearted
  13. Lines
  14. On the Mountain Holiday
  15. A Song at Wei-ch'eng
  16. A Song of an Autumn Night
  17. A Message from My Lodge at Wang-ch'uan
  18. An Autumn Evening in the Mountains
  19. Bound Home to Mount Sung
  20. Mount Chung-nan
  21. Answering Vice-Prefect Chang
  22. Toward the Temple of Heaped Fragrance
  23. A Message to Commissioner Li at Tsu-chou
  24. A View of the Han River
  25. My Retreat at Mount Chung-nan
  26. An Early Audience at the Palace of Light
  27. Looking Down in a Spring Rain on the Course from Fairy-Mountain Palace to the Pavilion of Increase
  28. In My Lodge at Wang-ch'uan After a Long Rain
  29. Harmonizing a Poem by Palace-Attendant Kuo
  30. At Parting
  31. To Chi-wu Ch'ien Bound Home After Failing in an Examination
  32. A Green Stream
  33. A Farm-House on the Wei River
  34. The Beautiful Hsi Shih
  35. A Song of a Girl from Lo-yang
  36. A Song of an Old General
  37. A Song of Peach-Blossom River

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