Poems

To Qiwu Qian Bound Home After Failing an Examination In a happy reign there should be no hermits; The wise and able should consult together…. So […]

Toward the Temple of Heaped Fragrance Not knowing the way to the Temple of Heaped Fragrance, Under miles of mountain-cloud I have wandered Through ancient woods […]

Visiting the Temple Not knowing where the temple was, I travelled miles on hills of cloud, Through ancient pines, no good tracks, Towards bell sounds across […]

Wei City Song Wei City morning rain dampens the light dust. By this inn, green, newly green willows. I urge you to drink another cup of […]

White Hairs Once a tiny child now an old man. White hairs to match the soft down. How the heart gets hurt by life. Beyond the […]

Words for the Mica Screen Unfold this screen Against the light, Show hills and streams Nature painted.

Words spoken to P’ei Ti How can we break out of the net, Be free of all this sound and dust, Swinging a thorn-branch, find the […]

Written on the Wang River Scroll No urge now to write poems. Old age is my companion. In error they made me a poet in a […]

A Smile A smile!–Alas, how oft the lips that bear This floweret of the soul but give to air, Like flowering graves, the growth of buried […]

And Now In Accents Deep And Low And now, in accents deep and low, Like voice of fondly-cherish’d woe, The Sylph of Autumn sad: Though I […]