Poems by Confucius
A Festal Ode
... Sound, sound the lutes, or great or small ...
A Eunuch Complains Of His Fate
... Who planned, and helped those slanderers vile, ...
The Easy Dignity Of The Officers At Some Court
... The five seams wrought with white silk show! ...
A Wife Consoled By Her Husband's Arrival
... Whistles the wind, patters the rain, ...
King Seuen On The Occasion Of A Great Drought
... With all your powers ye well have striven, ...
The Diligence Of The Young Wife Of An Officer
... Where the light falls down through the wall ...
On The Misery Of Soldiers
... Long-tailed foxes pleased may hide ...
The Value Of Friendship
... And when the birds their sweet notes sing, ...
Anxiety Of A Young Lady To Get Married
... Ripe, the plums fall from the bough ...
The Response To A Festal Ode
... Heaven shields and sets thee fast, ...
Celebrating T'ae-Sze's Freedom From Jealousy
... In the South are the trees whose branches are bent, ...
The Lament Of A Lover
... There where its shores the marsh surround, ...
A Young Soldier On Service
... May he careful be, and come back to me, ...
An Officer Bewails The Neglect With Which He Is Treated
... My eyes, as if from sleep, I beat my breast, sore-tried ...
The Affection Of The Wives On The Joo
... As the toiled bream makes red its tail, ...
