Poetry Codex

Chinese & Japanese

Yüan Mei

18th century AD

Yüan Mei was a Ch’ing poet and critic. His poem here is a sceptical epigram on the gods.

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 (10)

  1. A Scoffer
  2. A Feast of Lanterns
  3. A Medley of Perfume
  4. Willow Flowers
  5. Illusion
  6. The Secret Land
  7. In an Old Library
  8. A Challenge from the Moon
  9. After the Rain
  10. Home

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