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Chinese & Japanese

Wei Ying-wu

8th century AD

Wei Ying-wu is dated by Giles to the 8th century AD, in the T’ang dynasty. Giles prints three of his poems, on spring and on absent friends.

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 (17)

  1. Spring Joys
  2. Remembrances
  3. A Promise
  4. Farewell Words to the Daughter of the House of Yang
  5. The Fragrant Tree
  6. An Autumn Night Message
  7. At Ch'u-chou on the Western Stream
  8. A Greeting on the Huai River
  9. A Farewell in the Evening Rain
  10. To My Friends Li Tan and Yuan Hsi
  11. Entertaining Literary Men in My Official Residence on a Rainy Day
  12. Setting Sail on the Yang-tsze
  13. A Poem to a Taoist Hermit on Ch'uan-chiao Mountain
  14. On Meeting My Friend Feng Chu in the Capital
  15. Mooring at Twilight in Yu-yi District
  16. East of the Town
  17. To My Daughter on Her Marriage into the Yang Family

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