INTRODUCTION/009 ZHOU DYNASTY(1046-256 BC)/ 2 THE BOOK OF POETRY/ 4 A Fair Maiden / 4 The Fruits from Mume Tree Fall / 6 My Quiet Maiden / 8 The Faithless Man / 10 My Man’s Away / 16 Rooster’s Crow, Hark! / 18 The Rooster Is Crowing / 20 Comradeship / 22 Homecoming after the War(Excerpt)/ 24 Hunting / 26 QU YUAN / 30 To the God of Cloud / 30 To the Lord of River Xiang / 32 To the Lady of River Xiang / 36 For Those Fallen for the Country / 40 HAN DYNASTY(206 BC-AD 220)/ 42 XIANG YU / 44 The Last Song / 44 LIU BANG / 46 Song of the Big Wind / 46 NINETEEN OLD POEMS / 48 You Travel On and On / 48 FOLK SONGS / 50 The Roadside Mulberry / 50 LIU CHE / 54 Song of the Autumn Wind / 54 LADY BAN / 56 Lament of the Autumn Fan / 56 CAO CAO / 58 The Sea / 58 CAO PI / 60 On the Death of My Father / 60 CAO ZHI / 62 Written While Taking Seven Paces / 62 ANONYMOUS / 64 A Pair of Peacocks Southeast Fly / 64 SIX DYNASTIES(222-589)/ 90 TAO QIAN / 92 Return to Nature (I) / 92 Drinking Wine / 94 An Elegy for Myself (I) / 96 BAO ZHAO / 98 The Mume / 98 XIE TIAO / 100 Ascending the Three Peaks at Dusk and Gazing at the Capital / 100 WEI DING / 102 To a Blackbird at the Capital / 102 ANONYMOUS / 104 A Shepherd’s Song / 104 Song of the Western Islet / 106 Song of Mulan / 110