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J.P. Seaton
Translations of
the Chinese Masters
Contents
Ten Poems by Ou-yang Hsiu
Ou-yang Hsui
Poems from "An Answering Music"
Anonymous, Drunken Villagers
Tu Fu, House Cricket and Song of the Bound Chickens
Yuan Mei, Dog Days, At "Be Careful Bank," Night Thought, Talking Art, When the Clouds Come
More Poems by Yan Mei and Poems by T'ao Ch'ien
Yuan Mei, End of the Year, Something to Ridicule
T'ao Ch'ien, Drinking Wine XVI, After the Ancients
Poems from "Traces: Fifty Generations of Zen Poetry "
Seng Yu, To everything there is a season
Ling Yi, Drinking Tea with Hermit Yuan at Greenmount Pool
Cheng Fu, Freedom's Good
Kuan Hsiu, Chung-nan Mountain Monk, Mean Alleyways, A Hundred Sorrows, Leaving It to You
Ching Yun, The Old Man of the Creek
Yuan Mei, So Be It
Ching An, Making a Fool of Myself
Poem from "World Views: New Writing About Nature"
Kuan Hsiu, Hymn on the Way
Poems from "Getting Past Words"
Ching An, To Show You All, on the First Morning of the Year, Facing Snow and Writing What My Heart Embraces, On the Spot Where Shih-chia Tz Sits in Meditation
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J.P. Seaton
Translations of the Chinese Masters
TU FUHouse Cricket
House cricket...
Trifling thing.
And yet how his mournful song moves us.
Out in the grass his cry was a tremble,
But now, he trills beneath our bed, to share his sorrow.
I lie still beside you, finding no release:
You, old wife, you suffer quiet through till dawn.
The song of ourselves may move us, restless,
Through long nights. The cricket's song of Autumn
Holds us still.
Song of the Bound Chickens
The little bond-slave binds our chickens for the market,
and the chickens being bound begin to struggle and proclaim.
The family's up in arms because the chickens eat the ants,
Never thinking that the market means the pot, as far as chickens are concerned.
Ants, chickens: Man, which most deserves concern?
I told the bondman to unbind them.
No end here to the wars of ants and chickens.
I lean in this high place, eyes fixed
To the cold flow, to the River.
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