Complete Poems

by Ch'ing-chao, Li; Rexroth, Kenneth; Chung, Ling

• ISBN13: 9780811207454
• ISBN10: 0811207455
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1980-01-17
• Publisher: New Directions

Summary

Written during the final years of the Sung Dynasty, with its political intrigues and collapse in the face of the Tatar invasions, her poems reveal an imaginative freshness, sensuous imagery, and satirical spirit often at odds with the decadent Confucian code of the day.

Table of Contents

YOUTH
Joy of Wine, to the tune ``A Dream Song''	3	(1)
Spring Ends, to the tune ``A Dream Song''	4	(1)
Thoughts from the Women's Quarter, to the tune ``The Silk Washing Brook''	5	(1)
To a short version of ``The Magnolia Flower''	6	(1)
To the tune ``Picking Mulberries''	6	(1)
Two Springs, to the tune ``Small Hills''	7	(1)
Red Plum Blossoms, to the tune ``Spring in the Jade Tower''	8	(1)
Plum Blossoms, to the tune ``The Honor of a Fisherman''	9	(1)
When the Plums by the Back Pavilion Bloomed, to the tune ``An Idle, Lovely Woman''	10	(1)
Peonies, to the tune ``I Celebrate the Clear Slow Dawn''	11	(1)
Watching Lotuses, to the tune ``Grievance against My Young Lord''	12	(1)
Cassia Flowers, to the tune ``Partridge Sky''	13	(1)
Ninth Day, Ninth Month, to the tune ``Drunk with Flower Shadows''	14	(1)
The Beauty of White Chrysanthemums, to the tune ``Beauties''	15	(4)
LONELINESS
Remorse, to the tune ``Rouged Lips''	19	(1)
To the tune ``The Silk Washing Brook''	20	(1)
On Spring, to the tune ``The Silk Washing Brook''	21	(1)
Spring in the Women's Quarter, to the tune ``Beautiful Nien Nu''	22	(1)
The Day of Cold Food, to the tune ``The Silk Washing Brook''	23	(1)
Thoughts from the Women's Quarter, to the tune ``The Silk Washing Brook''	24	(1)
To the tune ``The Bodhisattva's Headdress''	25	(1)
To the tune ``Happiness Approaches''	26	(1)
Sorrow of Departure, to the tune ``Cutting a Flowering Plum Branch''	27	(1)
Farewell Letter to My Sister Sent from an Inn at Lo Ch'ang, to the tune ``Butterflies Love Flowers''	28	(1)
To the tune ``You Move in Fragrance''	29	(1)
Thoughts from the Women's Quarter, to the tune ``Nostalgia of the Flute on the Phoenix Terrace''	30	(1)
Autumn Love, ``A Weary Song to a Slow Sad Tune''	31	(1)
Spring Ends, I, to the tune ``A Complaint to My Young Lord''	32	(1)
Spring Ends, II, to the tune ``A Complaint to My Young Lord''	33	(1)
Thoughts from the Women's Quarter, to the tune ``The Boat of Stars''	34	(3)
EXILE
To the tune ``The Bodhisattva's Headdress''	37	(1)
The Wu-t'ung Tree, to the tune ``Remembering the Girl of Ch'in''	38	(1)
Cassia Flowers, to a new version of ``The Silk Washing Brook''	39	(1)
Banana Trees, to the tune ``Picking Mulberries''	39	(1)
To the tune ``Partridge Sky''	40	(1)
Plum Blossoms, to the tune ``Immortals on the River Bank''	41	(1)
I Gave a Party to My Relatives on the Day of Purification, to the tune ``Butterflies Love Flowers''	42	(1)
Fading Plum Blossoms, to the tune ``Perfumed Garden''	43	(1)
Spring Fades	44	(3)
HIS DEATH
To the tune ``The Perfumed Garden''	47	(1)
I Smell the Fragrance of Withered Plum Blossoms by My Pillow, to the tune ``Unburdening Oneself''	48	(1)
Spring Ends, to the tune ``Spring at Wu Ling''	48	(1)
To the tune ``A Song of the South''	49	(1)
A Song of Departure, to the tune ``Butterflies Love Flowers''	50	(1)
On Plum Blossoms, to the tune ``A Little Wild Goose''	51	(1)
Written by Chance	52	(3)
POLITICS
Sentiment	55	(1)
Poems on Yuen Chieh's ``Ode to the Restoration of T'ang'' to Rhyme with Chang Wen-ch'ien's Poem, I & II	56	(3)
Poems Dedicated to Lord Han, the Minister of the Council of Defense, and Lord Hu, the Minister of the Board of Works	59	(6)
A Satire on the Lords Who Crossed the Yangtse in Flight from the Chin Troops	65	(1)
On History	66	(1)
Written on Climbing Eight Poems Tower	67	(1)
Our Boat Starts at Night from the Beach of Yen Kuang	67	(1)
In the Emperor's Chamber	68	(1)
To the Empress	68	(1)
To an Imperial Lady	69	(1)
To the Imperial Concubine	70	(3)
MYSTICISM
Dream, to the tune ``The Honor of a Fisherman''	73	(1)
Written on the Seventh Day of the Seventh Month, to the tune ``You Move in Fragrance''	74	(1)
A Morning Dream	75	(4)
OLD AGE
To the tune ``Clear Peace Happiness''	79	(1)
Cassia Flowers, to a new version of ``The Silk Washing Brook''	80	(1)
At a Poetry Party I Am Given the Chih	81	(1)
To the tune ``Immortals on the River Bank''	81	(1)
To the tune ``Everlasting Joy''	82	(1)
Biography of Li Ch'ing-Chao	83	(12)
Ling Chung
Notes to the Poems	95