CONTENTS

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[A FEW REMARKS ON THE HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION OF CHINESE POETRY]10
[THE TECHNIQUE OF CHINESE POETRY]18
[BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES OF A FEW OF THE MORE EMINENT CHINESE POETS]27
[POEMS]
[Only a Fragrant Spray]35
[The River By Night in Spring]37
[The Beauty of Snow]41
[A Maiden's Reverie]42
[A Song of the Marches]47
[The Cowherd and the Spinning-Maid]50
[The Old Soldier's Return]52
[On the Lake near the Western Mountains]54
[The Happy Farmer]57
[An Old House Unroofed by an Autumn Gale]59
[The Lament of the Ladies of the Siang River]61
[The Waters of the Mei-Pei]63
[The Swallow's Song]68
[Farewell to a Comrade]71
[Beauty's Fatal Snare]74
[A Reverie in a Summer-house]76
[The Flower-Seller]78
[The Red-Flower Pear-Tree]80
[A Song of Princess Tze-Yuh]83
[Distaste for Official Life]85
[The Fragrant Tree]88
[A Song of the Snow]90
[The Old Temple among the Mountains]93
[A Soldier's Farewell to his Wife]94
[The Wanderer's Return]96
[The Pleasures of a Simple Life with Nature]98
[Listening to the Playing on a Lute in a Boat]100
[Reflections on the Past]103
[A Lowly Flower]105
[On returning to a Country Life]107
[The Brevity of Life]109
[Conscripts leaving for the Frontier]110
[Estimating the Value of a Wife]115
[The Lady Lo-Fu]117
[An Autumn Evening in the Garden]122
[Muh-Lan]124
[The Old Fisherman]130
[Midnight in the Garden]132
[Reflections on the Brevity of Life]134
[So-fei gathering Flowers]136
[A Farewell]137
[The Khwun-ming Lake]139
[Reflections]141
[Pride and Humility]143
[Dwellers in the Peach Stream Valley]145
[The Five Sons]149
[The Journey Back]151
[The Gallant Captain and the Innkeeper's Wife]153
[The Lady Chao-Chiün]158
[Night on the Lake]162
[The Fishermen's Song]164
[The Students' Ramble]166
[The Priest of T'ien Mountain]169
[Maidens By the River-side]170
[The Poet-Beggar]172