Chinese & Japanese

Yüan-ti

AD 508–554


Yüan-ti (AD 508–554) is represented by a seven-line poem, “The Rejected Wife,” in which a woman meets her successor and her former husband in the same hour.

The poems here are Arthur Waley’s version in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918), given with the poet’s name as spelled in those books.

  1. The Rejected Wife

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