Most of these poems are by Li T’ai-po, the Tang poet now usually called Li Bai: songs of the frontier marches, the perils of the Shu road, lonely wives and palace women, wine shops and moonlight. Florence Ayscough supplied literal versions and the meanings of the characters, and Amy Lowell shaped them into English free verse.
A landmark of Imagist-era translation from the Chinese. Download the free EPUB.