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]