Wen T’ing-yün

Wen T'ing-yün (Wen Tingyun) was a poet of the late T'ang dynasty, dated by Ayscough and Lowell's Contents to circa A.D. 850, and is known above all for lyrics written to popular tunes.

The archive holds one lyric from Fir-Flower Tablets (1921), a woman watching the river for a boat that does not come, written to the air "Looking South over the River and Dreaming".