Wu-ti of Liang

Wu-ti (AD 464–549) was emperor of the Liang dynasty. Waley gives two poems of his: “The Liberator,” a political allegory about a sparrow and a fowler, and a love-poem, “People Hide their Love.”

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.