“A lone boat, straw rain hat, old man / Fishing alone, cold river, snow.”

[larryhammer]

An index post for translations of Chinese poetry. (Japanese is over here.) These link to more polished versions in this journal, usually in compilations, as opposed to the individual initial drafts in my other journal. Note, btw, that some (especially my earliest efforts) have since been revised, sometimes significantly, but not reposted.

Three Hundred Tang Poems:
Preface
#36-45 (Part 2)
#71, Song of Lasting Regret (from Part 3)
#78, Ballad of Peach-Blossom Spring (from Part 4)
#90-109 (Part 5a)
#110-129 (Part 5b)
#130-149 (Part 5c)
#150-169 (Part 5d)
#170-183 (Part 6a)
#184-196 (Part 6b)
#197-209 (Part 6c)
#224-260 (Part 7)
#261-290 (Part 8a)
#291-320 (Part 8b)

Complete Tang Poems chapters 865-866:
Thirteen poems by Chinese ghosts
Thirteen more poems by Chinese ghosts
Thirteen additional poems by Chinese ghosts
Thirteen poems by still more Chinese ghosts
Poems by Chinese ghosts part V: The Fifth Installment
Presented to Yang Yunzhong, Xue Tao
The last thirteen poems by Chinese ghosts

Other Tang Poetry:
Presented When Zhang Yunrong Danced, Consort Yang Yuhan
Presented When the Emperor Visited Xinfeng Hotsprings Palace: Three Poems, Shangguan Wan’er
Three by Empress Wu Zetian
One by Emperor Xuanzong
Wangchuan Collection, Wang Wei & Pei Di
Emerald Walls: Three Poems, Li Shangyin
Border Songs: Four Poems, Wang Changling
Early Autumn: Three Poems, Xu Hun
Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon: Four Poems, Li Bai
Early Morning Court at Daming Palace, four authors
In the “Jade Terrace” Style: Twelve Poems, Quan Deyu
A Changgan Ballad, Li Bai or Li Qi or Zhang Chao
Four Tang Children’s Rhymes
Four Tang Comic Poems
Inscribed in the Temple of Mulan, Du Mu

Poetry from Other Eras:
Five from New Songs from the Jade Terrace
Ballad of Mulan (yes, that Mulan)
Song of Mulan, Wei Yuanfu (Tang but goes with previous)
Three Classic Openings
Three-Character Classic, Wang Yinglin
Five Erotic Poems, Zhao Luanluan
Dao De Jing, chapters 1-9, chapters 10-19, chapters 20-28

---L.

Subject quote from “River, Snow,” Liu Zongyuan (3TP #244).

Comments

[sovay]

“A lone boat, straw rain hat, old man / Fishing alone, cold river, snow.”

Made me think of.

[lnhammer]

Heh -- you're not alone: one of the comments on that post (from tearex714 a week ago) quotes the original of that couplet.

(Missing the snow, though. Also, the original, the verb for fishing is specifically for with a hook and line.)