King Seuen On The Occasion Of A Great Drought (Confucius Poems)
Grand shone the Milky Way on high, With brilliant span athwart the sky, Nor promise gave of rain. King ...
Grand shone the Milky Way on high, With brilliant span athwart the sky, Nor promise gave of rain. King ...
The fibres of the white-flowered rush Are with the white grass bound. So do the two together go, ...
The royal Wan now rests on high, Enshrined in brightness of the sky. Chow as a state had long been ...
The woodmen's blows responsive ring, As on the trees they fall; And when the birds their sweet notes sing, ...
They flit about, the yellow birds, And rest upon the jujubes find. Who buried were in duke Muh's grave, ...
A few fine lines, at random drawn, Like the shell-pattern wrought in lawn To hasty glance will seem. My ...
In the fourth month summer shines; In the sixth the heat declines. Nature thus grants men relief; Tyranny gives only ...
Various the toils which fields so large demand! We choose the seed; we take our tools in hand. In winter ...
A fruit, small as the garden peach, May still be used for food. A State, though poor as ours, ...
Who dares to say your sheep are few? The flocks are all three hundred strong. Who dares despise your ...
The dolichos grows and covers the thorn, O'er the waste is the dragon-plant creeping. The man of my heart ...
So full am I of anxious thought, Though all the morn king-grass I've sought, To fill my arms I ...
A grand man is the prince of Loo, With person large and high. Lofty his front and suited to ...
How goes the night? For heavy morning sleep Ill suits the king who men would loyal keep. The courtyard, ruddy ...
Like splendid robes appear the wings Of the ephemeral fly; And such the pomp of those great men, ...
Thin cloth of dolichos supplies the shoes, In which some have to brave the frost and cold. A bride, ...
On the left of the way, a russet pear-tree Stands there all alone--a fit image of me. There is that ...
Careful he sets his rabbit-nets all round; _Chang-chang_ his blows upon the pegs resound. Stalwart the man and bold! his ...
Yellow now is all the grass; All the days in marching pass. On the move is every man; Hard work, ...
My only door some pieces of crossed wood, Within it I can rest enjoy.I drink the water wimpling from the ...
Men of superior mind busy themselves first getting at the root of things; when they succeed, the right course is ...
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