PREFACE * WANG WEI * Introduction * A Spring Day at the Farm * Watching the Hunt * To Secretary Su * Autumn Evening in the Mountains * Walking in Mountains in the Rain * Late Spring: Mr. Yen and His Friends Come to Visit * My Mount Chungnan Cottage * Spring in the Garden * Watching It Snow and Thinking of My Friend, the Hermit Hu * Passing the Temple of Accumulated Fragrance * Returning to My Cottage * Floating on a Marsh * LI PO * Introduction * A Clear Wet Dawn * Drinking in Moonlight * For Tu Fu * Grotto Garden * Talking Leave of a Friend * Listening to the Monk Chun Play His Lute * She Thinks of Him * 'Fighting South of the Ramparts' * Goodbye at the River * To Wang Lun * High in the Mountains, I Fail to Find the Wise Man * Little Elegy * Conversation Among Mountains * Waking Up Drunk on a Spring Day * Indulgence * Blue Water Song * Autumn Lines * TU FU * Introduction * from Five Hundred Words about My Journey from the Capital to Feng-Hsien * A Moonlit Night * Spring Scene * The P'eng-ya Road * Meandering River * For Li Po * In the City on Business I Meet One Friend and We Spend the Night Eating and Drinking at the House of Another * Thinking of My Brothers on a Moonlit Night * New Moon * Rain on a Spring Night * Seven for the Flowers Near the River * Weary Night * Spring * Watching Fireflies * Five Poems on the Autumn Fields * White Horse * LI HO * Introduction * Twelve Poems on the Months * Big Song * Among Ruins * Song of the Screen * Meditation * Dawn in Stone City * Magic Strings I * Magic Strings II * Finding an Arrowhead on an Old Battlefield * A Beautiful Girl Combs Her Hair * LI SHANG-YIN * Introduction * Things I Can't Stand Hearing * The Overdecorated Lute * A Riddle and a Gift * Untitled Love Poem I * Untitled Love Poem II * Untitled Love Poem III * Untitled Love Poem IV * Untitled Love Poem V * Double Poem of Adultery *Three for the Goddess of the Moon * Spring Rain * Fallen Flowers * In Exile * Letter Home.