Zhang Jiuling - Poetry

Poetry

Zhang Jiuling had five of his poems selected for inclusion in the famous anthology of poetry Three Hundred Tang Poems. The titles, as translated by Witter Bynner are:

  • Thoughts I
  • Orchid and Orange I
  • Thoughts III
  • Orchid and Orange II
  • Looking at the Moon and Thinking of One Far Away

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