Part I

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Introduction	3
The Method of Translation	19
Bibliographical Notes	21
Chapter I:
Battle	23
The Man-Wind and the Woman-Wind	24
Master Tēng-t’u	26
The Orphan	27
The Sick Wife	29
Cock-Crow Song	30
The Golden Palace	31
“Old Poem”	32
Meeting in the Road	32
Fighting South of the Castle	33
The Eastern Gate	34
Old and New	35
South of the Great Sea	35
The Other Side of the Valley	36
Oaths of Friendship	37
Burial Songs	38
Seventeen Old Poems	39-48
The Autumn Wind	48
Li Fu-jēn	49
Song of Snow-white Heads	50
To his Wife	51
Li Ling	52
Lament of Hsi-chün	53
Ch’in Chia	53
Ch’in Chia’s Wife’s Reply	54
Song	55
Chapter II:
Satire on Paying Calls in August	57
On the Death of his Father	58
The Campaign against Wu	59
The Ruins of Lo-yang	60
The Cock-fight	61
A Vision	62
The Curtain of the Wedding Bed	63
Regret	63
Taoist Song	64
A Gentle Wind	64
Woman	65
Day Dreams	66
The Scholar in the Narrow Street	66
The Desecration of the Han Tombs	67
Bearer’s Song	68
The Valley Wind	69
Chapter III:
Poems by T’ao Ch’ien	71-79
Chapter IV:
Inviting Guests	81
Climbing a Mountain	81
Sailing Homeward	82
Five “Tzŭ-yeh” Songs	83
The Little Lady of Ch’ing-hsi	84
Plucking the Rushes	84
Ballad of the Western Island in the North Country	84
Song	86
Song of the Men of Chin-ling	86
The Scholar Recruit	87
The Red Hills	87
Dreaming of a Dead Lady	88
The Liberator	89
Lo-yang	89
Winter Night	90
The Rejected Wife	90
People hide their Love	91
The Ferry	91
The Waters of Lung-t’ou	92
Flowers and Moonlight on the Spring River	92
Tchirek Song	93
Chapter V:
Business Men	95
Tell me now	95
On Going to a Tavern	96
Stone Fish Lake	96
Civilization	97
A Protest in the Sixth Year of Ch’ien Fu	97
On the Birth of his Son	98
The Pedlar of Spells	98
Boating in Autumn	99
The Herd-boy	99
How I sailed on the Lake till I came to the Eastern Stream	100
A Seventeenth-century Chinese Poem	100

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