Wei Wēn-ti

Wei Wēn-ti (AD 188–227) was the son of Ts’ao Ts’ao, who founded the Wei dynasty and died in AD 220, and the elder brother of the poet Ts’ao Chih. Waley gives him a poem on the death of his father and two poems on a campaign against the southern state of Wu.

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.