Part II

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Introduction	105
By Po Chü-i:
An Early Levée	115
Being on Duty all night in the Palace and dreaming of the Hsien-yu Temple	116
Passing T’ien-mēn Street in Ch’ang-an and seeing a distant View of Chung-nan Mountain	116
The Letter	117
Rejoicing at the Arrival of Ch’ēn Hsiung	118
Golden Bells	119
Remembering Golden Bells	120
Illness	120
The Dragon of the Black Pool	121
The Grain-tribute	123
The People of Tao-chou	123
The Old Harp	125
The Harper of Chao	125
The Flower Market	126
The Prisoner	127
The Chancellor’s Gravel-drive	131
The Man who Dreamed of Fairies	132
Magic	134
The Two Red Towers	135
The Charcoal-seller	137
The Politician	138
The Old Man with the Broken Arm	139
Kept waiting in the Boat at Chiu-k’ou Ten Days by an adverse Wind	142
On Board Ship: Reading Yüan Chēn’s Poems	142
Arriving at Hsün-yang	143
Madly Singing in the Mountains	144
Releasing a migrant “Yen” (wild Goose)	145
To a Portrait Painter who desired him to sit	146
Separation	147
Having climbed to the topmost Peak of the Incense-burner Mountain	148
Eating Bamboo-shoots	149
The Red Cockatoo	149
After Lunch	150
Alarm at first entering the Yang-tze Gorges	150
On being removed from Hsün-yang and sent to Chung-chou	151
Planting Flowers on the Eastern Embankment	152
Children	153
Pruning Trees	154
Being visited by a Friend during Illness	155
On the way to Hangchow: Anchored on the River at Night	155
Stopping the Night at Jung-yang	156
The Silver Spoon	156
The Hat given to the Poet by Li Chien	157
The Big Rug	157
After getting Drunk, becoming Sober in the Night	158
Realizing the Futility of Life	158
Rising Late and Playing with A-ts’ui, aged Two	159
On a Box containing his own Works	160
On being Sixty	161
Climbing the Terrace of Kuan-yin and looking at the City	162
Climbing the Ling Ying Terrace and looking North	162
Going to the Mountains with a little Dancing Girl, aged Fifteen	163
Dreaming of Yüan Chēn	163
A Dream of Mountaineering	164
Ease	165
On hearing someone sing a Poem by Yüan Chēn	165
The Philosophers	166
Taoism and Buddhism	167
Last Poem	168

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