Waiting For The Unicorn Book

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Abbreviations

Part I: Poets of the Seventeenth Century

Ch’ien Ch’ien-Yi (1582-1664)
Two Quatrains on the...Album by Hsiao Po-yu...
Watching a Game of Chess: Second Series Written in Prison Upon Reading the boudoir Poems of Mei-ts’un: Impressions Drinking Wine: Second Series

Wu Wei-Yeh (1609-1672)
The Song of Yuan-yuan Leaving T’u-sung at Dawn Blocked by Snow Ancient Sentiments Written in Jest: On "The Old Man Who Rolled with the Punch"

Chin Jen-Jui (1610?-1661)
The Tiniest of Lives Capriciousness Don’t Ask Last Word: For My Son Yung

Huang Tsung-Hsi (1610-1695)
Rising Early...to Leave Tung-ming Ch’an Monastery Miscellaneous Songs from Living in the Mountains: Three Selections Cold-night Moon—in the Manner of Meng Tung-yeh Hearing the Cuckoo...[1646]
Encountering Fire in Early Spring, 1662
Encountering Fire Again in the Fifth Month

Ku Yen-Wu (1613-1682)
Ching-wei Eight Feet Mocking Myself Po-hsia

Sung Wan (1614-1673)
On Hearing a Cricket in the Boat Songs Composed in Prison: Four Selections A Song of a Fisherman A Ballad of the Righteous Tiger Random Poem on the Lake A Miscellany on the Garden of Autumn Clouds...

Yu T’ung (1618-1704)
Burning Incense Desultory Thoughts on My Old Home On Hearing the Chukar Bananas An Autumn Night

Wu Chia-Chi (1618-1684
Miscellaneous Poems: Two Selections On the Ninth Day of the Month...
Ten Miscellaneous Poems on Tung-t’ao: At the Ch’ang Family Well Passing the Retreat of Hsu Ching-po On Virtuous Government...
Falling Leaves

Liu Shih (1618-1664)
Poem on a Sleeping Butterfly A Tz’u-yun Poem...[on] Tiger Hill...[by Ch’ien Ch’ien-yi]
Poem in Response by Liu Shih Tune: T’a so hsing / Sending a Letter

Hsu Ts’an (fl. 1650)
Headwaters of the Lung River Moon over the Mountain Pass Tune: Hsi-chiang yueh / Rain on the Night of the Full Moon Tune: Lin-chiang hsien / Boudoir Feeling

Shih Jun-Chang (1619-1683)
Songs on Accompanying the Governor-General: Two Selections A Random Song on Approaching a River A Ballad of Hu-hsi A Ballad of One Hundred Fathoms Falling Teeth Upper Garrison Farm: A Ballad...

Wang Fu-Chih (1619-1692)
A Miscellany Bamboo Branch Song An Autumn Song Tune: Tieh lien hua / Withered Willows Tune: Fen tieh-erh / On Frost

Ch’en Wei-Sung (1626-1682)
Tune: Fa-chia tao-yin / The Hungry Crow Tune: Hao-shih chin / One Summer Day...
Tune: Yu mei-jen / Listlessness Tune: Ho hsin-lang / The Song of the Boat Trackers Tune: Ho hsin-lang / Written on Yun-lang’s Nuptial Day

Chu Yi-Tsun (1629-1709)
Two Quatrains on Yung-chia Two Quatrains on Peking’s Western Suburb Sent to My Beloved Far Away Evening View from P’eng-lai Pavilion Crossing Ta-yu Mountain Ridge Mallard Lake Boating Songs: Two Selections Tune: Sheng-ch’a tzu / Walking to Mou-chou at Dawn Tune: Chieh-p’ei ling / A Self-Portrait...
Tune: P’u-san man / Climbing Ch’ing-shuo Tower at Yun-chung Tune: Shui-lung yin / Visiting the Temple of Chang Tzu-fang

Ch’u Ta-Chun (1630-1696)
Snow Written upon Coming Again to the Tu-hus Taoist Temple Written at the Year’s End, While Visiting Chien-ling An Ancient Plum Tree at the K’ai-hsien Buddhist Monastery Inscribed on T’ai-po Shrine, at Colored Stone Jetty Fishing Jetty Tune: Meng Chiang-nan: Two Lyrics

P’eng Sun-Yu (1631-1700)
Musing beneath a Pine North-of-the-River Rhymes: Two Selections Mooring in the Evening at Plum Village On the Road to Tang Lake Tune: Sheng-ch’a tzu / A Traveler’s Night Tune: Pu-suan tzu / Summer Solstice

Yun Shou-P’ing (1633-1690
Humming My Verse, in My Leisure...
An Inscription for a Painting...
Early Summer...in Playful Imitation of Ts’ao Yun-hsi Tree and Boulder Inscription for a Painting A Picture of Village Happiness

Wang Shih-Chen (1634-1711)
Viewing the Sea from the Li-shuo Pavilion Mooring in the Rain at Kao-yu On the River Crossing the River at Kuan-yin Gate after Rain Climbing to the Top of Swallow Rock...
Two Poems on the Ch’in-huai Crossing the River in Heavy Wind: Two Selections Chen-chou Quatrains: Two Selections

Ts’ao Chen-Chi (1634-?)
Tune: Mu-lan hua / Late Spring Tune: Huan hsi sha / Inscribed on a Painting Tune: Shui-lung yin / White Lotus Flowers Tune: Pai-tzu ling / On a Historical Topic [Ching K’o]

Wu Wen (1644-1704)
The Jasper Cloud Monastery Poems on Yi Garden: Two Selections In the Mountains Starting Out on a Journey in a Windstorm: Two Selections

Hung Sheng (1645-1704)
The Thatched Cottage An Old Sophora Tree Passing the Night at the Monastery of Eternal Peace On Rising at Dawn and Seeing the Mountains The Fire of the Fireflies

Cha Shen-Hsing (1650-1727)
A Song of Crows Gleaning the Grain After a Rain Autumn Impressions: Two Selections A Song of Bitter Drought The Customs Station at Weed Lake

Hsuan-Yeh (1654-1722)
Hunting in the Ordos...
Lines in Praise of a Self-Chiming Clock Gift for an Old Official

Singde (1655-1685)
A Song of the Wild Crane...
In Imitation of Ancient-Style Poetry Tune: P’u-sa man: Two Lyrics Tune: Huan hsi sha: Two Lyrics Tune: Ch’ing-yu an / Stopping Overnight at Black Dragon River Tune: Yi Chiang-nan / Four Selections Tune: Che-ku t’ien Tune: Chin-lou ch’u / Sent to Liang-fen

Chao Chih-Hsin (1662-1744)
A Mid-Autumn Night Fireflies Presented to a Mountain Dweller On Poetry Miscellaneous Poems on Mountain Travel: Two Selections

Part II: Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Shen Te-Ch’ien (1673-1769)
Ditty: Below the Frontier-Two Selections Mooring My Boat at Pan-ch’a Song on a Pine on Yellow Mountain

Li E (1692-1752)
Spending the Night...on Mount Lung-men South Lake in the Rain Passing through South Lake Again A Cowherd’s Song: In Imitation of Chang Chi Leaving Southern Screen Hill...A View from the Boat Tune: Yeh Chin-men / Written on the Lake after a Shower...
Tune: Pai-tzu ling / Passing Seven-Mile Rapids...

Cheng Hsieh (1693-1765)
Martyred Widow Liu of Hai-ling: A Ballad Poor Scholar Flight from Famine: A Ballad Tune: Jui-ho hsien / The Fisherman Tune: Jui-ho hsien / The Tavernkeeper Tune: Jui-ho hsien / The Monk Tune: Jui-ho hsien / Powerful Officials Tune: Jui-ho hsien / Kings and Emperors

Yuan Mei (1716-1798)
Written at the Graveside Climbing T’ai Mountain Leaving My Post to Retire at the Sui Garden: Two Poems Life at the Sui Garden: Six Poems Self-Ridicule For My Wife: A Poem Written in Sickness In Early years Mocking Spectacles Praising Spectacles Willow Flowers Money Rain Passes Sleeplessness Delirium: Jesting at Illness Mad Words

Chiang Shih-Ch’uan (1725-1785)
An Evening Prospect: City Lights Toasting the Moon at Ten-Thousand-Year Bridge Expelling Witches Sixteen Songs of the Capital: Chicken Feather Shop

Chao Yi (1727-1814)
On Poetry: Three Selections Mocking Myself Sleepless at the Fifth Watch Watching an Opera: Impressions-Two Selections The Red Cliff Responding to a Poem on T’ai-po Pavilion at Colored Stone [Jetty]

Yao Nai (1732-1815)
A Temple in the Hills The Government Pond The Pavilion of the Infinite Heavens

Hung Liang-Chi (1746-1809)
Chatting about the Past with Huang the Elder [Ching-jen]
A Ballad of a Springtime River: Presented to Wang the Elder To Dispel the Cold: Two Poems on Spring Written on a Boat on the Ch’ien-t’ang River On the Road to An-hsi Upong Arriving at Ili, Recalling What I Saw on the Road

Wu Hsi-Ch’i (1746-1818)
Tune: P’u-san man Tune: Ch’ang hsiang-ssu / Colophon Written on the Flyleaf of a Book...
Tune: T’iao-hsiao ling

Li Chien (1747-1799)
Bent Willows My Little Garden Strolling under the Moon A Modern Poem in Response to...Shen Yueh The Dying Lamp

Huang Ching-Jen (1749-1783)
A Sail on the Lake after Rain Dawn Snow A Note to My Friends, While Slightly Ill The Grave of Pi Po A Caged Tiger: A Ballad

Wang Ts’ai-Wei (1753-1776)
Since You Went Away Written in the Mountains Tune: Tsui hua-yin / Written in Response to... Wei-yin’s Rhymes

Sung Hsiang (1756?-1826)
First Rain: Sent to Magistrate [Yi] Mo-ch’ing Written on the Wall of the Flying Cloud Cave in Kweichow On Poetry: Three Selections Upon Reading the Works of Tu Fu

Chang Hui-Yen (1761-1802)
Tune: Hsiang-chien huan—Two Lyrics Tune: Huan hsi sha Tune: Man-t’ing fang / Boating on Feng Stream on the Double Fifth Tune: Shui-tiao ko-t’ou / Composted on a Spring Day and Shown to Yang Tzu-shan

Chang Wen-T’ao (1764-1814)
On Literature: Two Selections Moving to the Cottage of Pines and Bamboo...Two Poems A Poem on Returning Home [9 November 1792]
[On Calligraphy]

Shu Wei (1765-1816)
Composed on a Moonlit Night Outing on Ancient West Lake, Two Poems Impressions of Things Encountered I Hate Mosquitoes The Price of Rice, Two Poems

Part III: Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Kung Tzu-Chen (1792-1841)
In the City of Wu [Soochow], I Obtained a Record...
Miscellaneous Poems of the Year Chi-hai [1839]: Five Selections Tune: Pu-suan tzu

Wei Yuan (1794-1857)
Song of Chiang-nan: Two Selections On the Chia-ling River Remembering the Past at Chin-ling Sitting in Meditation at Night, Facing Hui-shan

Hsiang Hung-Tso (1798-1835)
Tune: Yeh Chin-men / In Imitation of Sun Kuang-hsien’s [Style]
Tune: Ts’ai-sang tzu / Sent to Wu Tzu-lu...
Tune: Huan hsi sha

Ho Shao-Chi (1799-1873)
I Love Mountains Mountain Rain A Contrary Wind Samantabhadra Facing Westward

Ku T’ai-Ch’ing (1799-1876?)
Sitting in Meditation: A Random Thought Tune: Huan hsi sha / Sitting Up at Night Tune: Lang t’ao sha / In a Dream...

Wu Tsao (fl. 1840)
Tune: Ju-meng ling / Swallows Tune: Man chiang hung Tune: hsing-hsiang tzu Tune: K’u hsiang-ssu

Cheng Chen (1806-1864)
Evening Prospect Miscellaneous Poems Composed While Drinking...Two Selections Responding to [T’ao] Yuan-ming’s "Drinking Wine" Poems: Two Selections Reading beside Ox Rail River: Two Selections A Discussion of Poetry...the Coming of a New Age On Hearing That the Market...Has Been Burned Down On Hearing That on the Sixteenth Day of the Tenth Month the Magistrate...
A Lament for Those Who Hanged Themselves

Chiang Ch’un-Lin (1818-1868)
Tune: T’a so hsing / A Descriptive Piece for April, 1853
Tune: Yu mei-jen / The [New] Moon on the Night of the third of the Month Tune: Yu mei-jen Tune: Yang-chou man / On 19 December 1853, the [Taiping] Rebels Are Approaching...

Chin Ho (1819-1885)
Strolling in Simplicity Garden for the First Time Ballad of the Girl from Lan-ling

Chiang Shis (fl. ca. 1861)
Crossing Several Mountain Ridges...after a Snowfall Getting Up Early at Lakeside Pavilion: Two Poems Night at an Inn: Written in the Style of Meng Chiao

Li Tz’u-Ming (1830-1894)
On a Rainy Evening: Written in Playful Imitation of [Li] Yi-shan’s...
While on an Evening Stroll...
Written at Night, after Dreaming...

Wang K’ai-Yun (1833-1916)
Spring Sun Since You Went Away The Sighting of a Boat Song of the Full Splendor Park

Chuang Yu (?-1878)
Tune: Tieh lien hua-Three Lyrics

Fan Tseng-Hsiang (1846-1931)
Written in a Cool Breeze Random Verses from a Boat: Three Selections

Huang Tsun-Hsien (1848-1905)
The Ballad of Ch’ao-chou Song of the Exile My Small Daughter Ballad of the Great London Fog

Ch’en Pao-Shen (1848-1935)
Inscription for My Evergreen Pavilion Without Title: Two Quatrains On the Twenty-Second Night of the Seventh Month...

Wang P’eng-Yun (1849-1904)
Tune: Che-ku t’ien /Random Thoughts upon Reading History...Two Lyrics Tune: Nien-nu chiao / Climbing to the Peak of Yang-t’ai Moutain...

Ching An (1851-1912)
Inscribed on a Painting "Fishing in the Snow on a Wintry River"
Thoughts on...the Double-Ninth Festival Mountain Dwelling Elegy for Myself

Ch’en San-Li (1852-1937)
Strolling in the Moonlight View form the Pavilion on a Moonlit Night Prospect of the Wilds A Night at My Lodge On the Night of the Fourteenth of the Eleventh Month...

Wen T’ing-Shin (1856-1904)
Miscellaneous Verses on Living in the Mountains: Two Selections Tune: Lin-chiang hsien / Written on a Boat at Canton, 1882
Tune: Che-ku t’ien / Impressions

Cheng Wen-Cho (1856-1918)
Tune: Yeh Chin-men-Three Lyrics Tune: Yang-liu chih Tune: Ch’ing ch’un-kung / Fellow Wanderers Gather for the Night...

Chu Hsiao-Tsang (1857-1931)
Tune: Che-ku t’ien / On the Ninth, outside Feng-yi Gate...
Tune: Che-ku t’ien / New Year’s Eve...[1900]
Tune: Huan hsi sha

K’ang Yu-Wei (1858-1927)
In Lieu of a Preface to The Great Commonwealth Book Seeing Spring Off Upon Leaving the Capital: A Farewell to My Several Friends Discussing Poetry with Shu-yuan...
Visiting Mount Vernon and Paying Homage at George Washington’s Burial Vault

Yi Shun-Ting (1858-1920)
Dawn Journey Leaving the Mountains in the Rain from Yellow Dragon Temple Passing the Birdge of Immortal Encounter Looking for the Sublime Ascent Temple

K’uang Chou-yi (1859-1926)
Tune: Tieh lien hua Tune: Hsi-chiang yueh / I Awake Crying on My Birthday...
Tune: Chien-tzu huan hsi sha / Thoughts upon Hearing a Singer Tune: Shui-lung yin / One autumn night in Chi-ch’ou [1889]...

Cheng Hsiao-Hsu (1860-1938)
Wu Family Thatched Hall Written on the Wall of Ku Tzu-p’eng’s Studio Night of the Full Moon A Random Poem Returning to Nanking Upon Returning to the Capital in 1923

T’an Ssu-t’ung (1865-1898)
Parting Chant Fen-chou T’ung Pass Written on an Autumn Day...
Mooring at Night Tao-wu Mountain

Hsueh Shao-Hui (1866-1911)
Ancient Sentiments After Rain Emperor Wen In Honor of My Husband’s Fiftieth Birthday Tune: Mu-fu-sha / For My Husband Who Sent Me Egyptian Stone Tablets

Liang Ch’i-Ch’ao (1873-1939)
Random Thoughts on Autumn After the Rain Night of the First Full Moon The Scarlet Red Tree Tune: Tieh lien hua / Thoughts at the End of Spring...Two Lyrics

Ch’iu Chin (1877-1904)
Random Feelings: Written in Japan Written on Board a Ship on the Yellow Sea...Russo-Japanese War A Song: Promoting Women’s Rights A Song of the Precious Knife Tune: Man chiang hung

Wang Kuo-Wei (1877-1927)
Random Thoughts tune: Ch’ueh-ch’iao hsien Tune: Huan hsi sha Tune: Ts’ai-sang tzu Tune: Tieh lien hua: Two Lyrics

Selected Bibliography Contributors Index of Names Index of Tune Titles