Chinese Poems

Bai Juyi (白居易)	[772- 846] uses very simple language, and is therefore particularly accessible for the beginner. (17 poems).
Du Fu (杜甫)	[712- 770] is widely acknowledged as the finest of the classical Chinese poets. His poems have a particularly sensitive feeling for humanity. (56 poems).
Du Mu (杜牧)	[803- 852] was one of the foremost writers of the late Tang period. (9 poems).
Han Yu (韓愈)	[768- 824] was a founder of Neo-Confucianism as well as a poet, and was exiled for his views. (3 poems).
Li Bai (李白)	[701- 762] is the most popular Chinese poet, with a distinctively Romantic style. (21 poems).
Li Shangyin (李商隱)	[813- 858] wrote verse which was allusive, but which nevertheless dealt with readily accessible themes of loss and parting. (3 poems).
Li Yu (李煜)	[937- 978] was the last emperor of the Southern Tang dynasty, deposed in 975. His works focus on the memory of lost pleasures. (12 poems).
Liu Zongyuan (柳宗元)	[773-819] was a Mid-Tang politician and another victim of political intrigues. (3 poems).
Mei Yaochen (梅堯臣)	[1002-1060] lived in the Song dynasty, and wrote simple, moving poems of everyday life and of mourning for his family. (6 poems).
Meng Haoran (孟浩然)	[689- 740] was associated with Wang Wei, and was himself one of the greatest poets of the High Tang. (11 poems).
Ouyang Xiu (歐陽修)	[1007- 1072] was one of the pioneers of serious ci poetry in the Song dynasty. A self-taught polymath, his works express a warm, self-deprecatory persona (10 poems).
Su Shi (蘇軾)	[1037- 1101], also known as Su Dongpo, was the most important of the Song dynasty poets. (8 poems).
Tao Qian (陶潛)	[365- 427] wrote about his decision to abandon public life and return to live among nature. He was a major influence on Wang Wei. (3 poems).
Wang Wei (王維)	[701- 761] is one of the three most admired Tang dynasty poets, alongside Du Fu and Li Bai. A painter as well as a poet, he is known above all for his miniaturist celebrations of nature. (20 poems).
Other Poets	19 poems by Cao Cao, Cui Hao and others, plus anonymous Yue Fu folk songs.