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 ...
Forth from the city in our cars we drove, Until we halted at the pasture ground. The general came, ...
O Heaven above, before whose light Revealed is every deed and thought, To thee I cry. Hither on toilsome ...
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, ...
On yonder banks a palace, lo! upshoots, The tender blue of southern hill behind; Firm-founded, like the bamboo's clamping ...
It floats about, that boat of cypress wood, Now here, now there, as by the current borne. Nor rest ...
To the hills of the east we went, And long had we there to remain. When the word of ...
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 ...
The east wind gently blows, With cloudy skies and rain. 'Twixt man and wife should ne'er be strife, ...
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 ...
Our chariots were well-built and firm, Well-matched our steeds, and fleet and strong. Four, sleek and large, each chariot ...
With axle creaking, all on fire I went, To fetch my young and lovely bride. No thirst or hunger pangs ...
The russet pear-tree stands there all alone; How bright the growth of fruit upon it shown! The King's affairs no ...
Heaven shields and sets thee fast. It round thee fair has cast Thy virtue pure. Thus richest joy is ...
On dashed my four steeds, without halt, without stay, Though toilsome and winding from Chow was the way. I wished ...
A fruit, small as the garden peach, May still be used for food. A State, though poor as ours, ...
With sounds of happiness the deer Browse on the celery of the meads. A nobler feast is furnished here, ...
The wild geese fly the bushy oaks around, With clamor loud. _Suh-suh_ their wings resound, As for their feet poor ...
In the old capital they stood, With yellow fox-furs plain, Their manners all correct and good, Speech free ...
Who dares to say your sheep are few? The flocks are all three hundred strong. Who dares despise your ...
Hark! from the islet in the stream the voice Of the fish-hawks that o'er their nests rejoice! From them our ...
To the top of that tree-clad hill I go, And towards my father I gaze, Till with my mind's ...
As the young millet, by the genial rain Enriched, shoots up luxuriant and tall, So, when we southward marched ...
The black robes well your form befit; When they are worn we'll make you new. Now for your court! ...
High and compressed, the Southern trees No shelter from the sun afford. The girls free ramble by the Han, ...
List to the thunder and roll of the drum! See how we spring and brandish the dart! Some raise ...
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