I Don't Bow to Buddhas: Selected Poems of Yuan Mei [Paperback]

Yuan Mei (Author), J. P. Seaton (Translator)

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Publication Date: February 1, 1996 | ISBN-10: 1556591209 | ISBN-13: 978-1556591204

China's most popular classical poet

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After The Bath
Alone
Ancient Wall
Answering
At 'be Careful' Bank
At Random In My Garden
At The Narrows Of The Yung-chia River
Autumn Thoughts
Bell
A Bitter Charge
Bothered By My Dreams, I Wrote This In Six-word Lines
By Accident
Climbing The Mountain
Cloud Creek
Cold Night
Conscioius Of Withering
Cool Hall
Day After Day
Delirium (joking At Illness)
Dog Days
Egret
Falling Leaves
Fifteenth Night Of The Second Moon
Furs In The Sixth Month
Ginseng
Given To The Monk Ts'an-ch'un At Yung-fu Shrine
Going Down From Fort Tu-hsia To Hen Cave
Gone Again To Gaze On The Cascade
A Guest Arrives
I Saw It: I Wrote It
Idle Stroll
Idleness
In A Boat: Fearsome Weather
Iscj (i Can't Stand To Read Anything But My Own Collected Works)
Jade Lady Peak
Just Done (2)
Just Done (3)
Just Done (4)
Just Done (5)
Just Done (6)
Last Poem: Goodbye To My Garden
Late Gazing, Looking For An Omen As The Sun Goes
Late, Walking Alone To A Temple In The Mountain's Cleft
Laughing At Myself For Lazing Around At West Lake
Leaning On The Railing
Lesson
A Moment
Monk's Place
Mornings Arise
Moss
Motto
Mountain Travel: Random Song
Mountain Wandering
Near Hao-pa
Night Thought
Old And Traveling
Old, And Still Traveling
On A Painting
On A Painting Of A White-haired Old Man
On A Painting Of The Yellow Millet Dream: A Dream Of Wealth And Power
On The Road To T'ien-t'ai
On Trading My Poems For Autumn Orchids
One Page
P'u-t'o Temple
Painting
Passing The Grave Of A Friend
The Peak Of Lonely Elegance
Planting Pines
Propped On A Pillow
Quatrain
A Quatrain In Six-character Lines
Rain Passes
Reading (2)
Reading (1)
Remembering
Returned From Yang-chou, Up The Hill To View The Snow
Rhymes In A Boat
Rise And Fall
Rolling Up The Curtain
Sadness
Saying Goodbye To A Friend
Sick (november Eighteenth)
Sitting At Night
Sitting Idle
Sixty
Sleepless
Sleepless (1)
Sleepless (2)
So Be It
Something To Ridicule
Speaking My Mind
Spring Day
Standing At Night At The Bottom Of The Steps (out Of Office)
Talking Art
Temple Of The Bamboo Grove
They Mock Me For Planting Trees At My Age
Twelfth Moon, Fifteenth Night
Visiting
Wandering Late At Kulin Temple
Waning Years: Random Poem
Waning Years: Random Song
Whose House
Willow Flowers
Writing What I've Seen
You Have To Pass 'forty-nine Turns To The Top'
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Chinese

Product Details

• Paperback: 124 pages
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press (February 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556591209
• ISBN-13: 978-1556591204
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #801,371 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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