Author:Bai Juyi

Bai Juyi
(772–846)

Bai Juyi

Works

Collections of Juyi's poetry can be found in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1919) and More Translations from the Chinese (1919), translated by Arthur Waley. A list of individual poems follows, with particularly well-known ones in bold. The title convention prefers the standard name for a poem, if there is one, and Waley's titling if there is not.

• After Passing the Examination (800), translated by Arthur Waley (1919).
• Escorting Candidates to the Examination Hall (805)
• In Early Summer Lodging in a Temple to Enjoy the Moonlight (805)
• Going Alone to Spend a Night at the Hsien-Yu Temple (806)
• Planting Bamboos (806)
• Sick Leave (806)
• Chang Hen Ge (長恨歌) (ca. 806–809)
  • Song of Everlasting Regret, a linear translation by Wikisource.
• Watching the Reapers (806), translated by Arthur Waley (1919).
• To Li Chien (807)
• The Prisoner (809)
• At the End of Spring (810)
• The Poem on the Wall (810)
• Chu Ch'ēn Village (811)
• Fishing in the Wei River (811)
• Lazy Man's Song (811)
• The Chrysanthemums in the Eastern Garden (812)
• The Grain-tribute (ca. 812)
• Illness and Idleness (ca. 812)
• Poems in Depression, at Wei Village (812)
• Rejoicing at the Arrival of Ch'ēn Hsiung (ca. 812)
• Winter Night (812)
• The Beginning of Summer (815)
• Rain (815)
• Starting Early from the Ch'u-Ch'ēng Inn (815)
• To His Brother Hsing-Chien, Who was in Tung-Ch'uan (815)
• Dreaming that I Went with Lu and Yu to Visit Yüan Chēn (ca. 815–820)
• Hearing the Early Oriole (ca. 815–820)
• Visiting the Hsi-Lin Temple (ca. 815–820)
• Song of the Pipa Player (琵琶行) (ca. 816)
  • The Lute-Girl’s Lament (n.d.), translated by Herbert Allen Giles (1922).
• The Fifteenth Volume (818), translated by Arthur Waley (1919).
• At Rise of Day We Sacrificed to the Wind God (818)
• Prose Letter to Yüan Chēn (818)
• Invitation to Hsiao Chü-Shih (ca. 818–820)
• Planting Flowers on the Eastern Embankment (ca. 818–820)
• After Collecting the Autumn Taxes (ca. 820)
• Children (ca. 820)
• More Translations from the Chinese/Lodging with the Old Man of the Stream (820)
• The Pine-Trees in the Courtyard (820)
• The Spring River (820)
• To His Brother Hsing-Chien (820)
• Parting from the Winter Stove (822)
• The Silver Spoon (822)
• Sleeping on Horseback (822)
• Good-Bye to the People of Hangchow (824)
• Getting Up Early on a Spring Morning (825)
• Losing a Slave-Girl (ca. 825)
• Written when Governor of Soochow (825)
• Realizing the Futility of Life (ca. 828)
• The Grand Houses at Lo-Yang (ca. 829)
• The Cranes (830)
• Rising Late and Playing with A-ts'ui, aged Two (831)
• On His Baldness (832)
• Thinking of the Past (833)
• A Mad Poem Addressed to My Nephews and Nieces (835)
• Old Age (835)
• To a Talkative Guest (836)
• Going to the Mountains with a little Dancing Girl, aged Fifteen (ca. 837)
• To Liu Yü-Hsi (838)
• My Servant Wakes Me (839)
• Dreaming of Yüan Chēn (ca. 840)
• Since I Lay Ill (840)
• Song of Past Feelings (ca. 840)
• Illness (ca. 842)
• Resignation (ca. 842)
• A Dream of Mountaineering (ca. 842–846)
• Ease (ca. 844)
• Taoism and Buddhism (ca. 846)
• After getting Drunk, becoming Sober in the Night (n.d.)
• After Lunch (n.d.)
• Alarm at first entering the Yang-tze Gorges (n.d.)
• Arriving at Hsün-yang (n.d.)
• Being on Duty all night in the Palace and dreaming of the Hsien-yu Temple (n.d.)
• Being visited by a Friend during Illness (n.d.)
• The Big Rug (n.d.)
• The Chancellor's Gravel-drive (n.d.)
• The Charcoal-seller (n.d.)
• Climbing the Ling Ying Terrace and looking North (n.d.)
• Climbing the Terrace of Kuan-yin and looking at the City (n.d.)
• The Dragon of the Black Pool (n.d.)
• An Early Levée (n.d.)
• A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Eating Bamboo-shoots (n.d.)
• The Flower Market (n.d.)
• Golden Bells (n.d.)
• The Harper of Chao (n.d.)
• The Hat given to the Poet by Li Chien (n.d.)
• Having climbed to the topmost Peak of the Incense-burner Mountain (n.d.)
• Illness (n.d.)
• Kept waiting in the Boat at Chiu-k'ou Ten Days by an adverse Wind (n.d.)
• Last Poem (n.d.)
• The Letter (n.d.)
• A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Madly Singing in the Mountains (n.d.)
• Magic (n.d.)
• The Man who Dreamed of Fairies (n.d.)
• The Old Harp (n.d.)
• The Old Man with the Broken Arm (n.d.)
• On a Box containing his own Works (n.d.)
• On being removed from Hsün-yang and sent to Chung-chou (n.d.)
• On being Sixty (n.d.)
• On Board Ship: Reading Yüan Chēn's Poems (n.d.)
• On hearing someone sing a Poem by Yüan Chēn (n.d.)
• On the way to Hangchow: Anchored on the River at Night (n.d.)
• Passing T'ien-mēn Street in Ch'ang-an and seeing a distant View of Chung-nan Mountain (n.d.)
• The Philosophers (n.d.)
• A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/The People of Tao-chou (n.d.)
• The Politician (n.d.)
• Pruning Trees (n.d.)
• The Red Cockatoo (n.d.)
• Releasing a migrant "Yen" (Wild Goose) (n.d.)
• Remembering Golden Bells (n.d.)
• Separation (n.d.)
• Stopping the Night at Jung-yang (n.d.)
• To a Portrait Painter who desired him to sit (n.d.)
• The Two Red Towers (n.d.)

Works about Bai

• Introduction to a collection of Bai's poetry, in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1919), translated by Arthur Waley.
• Life of Po Chü-i, an introduction to another collection of Bai's poetry, in More Translations from the Chinese (1919), translated by Arthur Waley.