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| Volume B: The Medieval Era | |
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| Medieval China | |
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| Women In Early China | |
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| Liu Xiang (c. 78-8 B.C.E.) | |
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| Memoirs of Women | |
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| The Mother of Mencius | |
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| Ban Zhao (c. 45-120) | |
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| Lessons for Women | |
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| Yuan Cai (c. 1140-1195) from Precepts for Social Life | |
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| Voices Of Women | |
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| Here's a Willow Bough | |
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| Midnight Songs | |
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| A Peacock Southeast Flew | |
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| Ballad of Mulan | |
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| Yaun Zhen (c. 779-831) | |
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| The Story of Yingying | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Wang Shifu: from The Story of the Western Wing | |
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| Tao Qian (c. 365-427) | |
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| Biography of the Gentleman of the Five Willows | |
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| Peach Blossom Spring | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Wang Wei (701-761): Song of Peach Blossom Spring | |
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| The Return | |
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| Returning to the Farm to Dwell | |
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| From On Reading the Seas and Mountains Classic | |
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| The Double Ninth, in Retirement | |
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| In the Sixth Month of 408, Fire | |
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| Begging for Food | |
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| Finding Fault with My Sons | |
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| Twenty Poems after Drinking Wine | |
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| Han Shan (c. 600-800) | |
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| Men ask the way to Cold Mountain | |
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| Spring water in the green creek is clear | |
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| When men see Han-shan | |
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| I climb the road to Cold Mountain | |
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| Wonderful, this road to Cold Mountain | |
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| Cold cliffs, more beautiful the deeper you enter | |
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| Men these days search for a way through the clouds | |
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| Today I sat before the cliff | |
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| Have I a body or have I none | |
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| My mind is like the autumn moon | |
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| Do you have the poems of Han-shan in your house? | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Lu-qui Yin: from Preface to the poems of Han-shan | |
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| Poetry Of The Tang Dynasty | |
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| Twang Wei (701-761) from The Wang River Collection | |
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| Preface | |
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| 1 Meng Wall Cove | |
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| 5 Deer Enclosure | |
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| 8 Sophora Path | |
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| 11 Lake Yi | |
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| 17 Bamboo Lodge | |
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| Bird Call Valley | |
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| Farewell | |
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| Farewell to Yuan the Second on His Mission to Anxi | |
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| Visiting the Temple of Gathered Fragrance | |
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| Zhongnan Retreat | |
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| In Response to Vice-Magistrate Zhang | |
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| Tli Bo (701-62) | |
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| Drinking Alone by Moon | |
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| Fighting South of the Ramparts | |
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| The Road to Shu is Hard | |
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| Bring in the Wine | |
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| The Jewel Stairs' Grievance | |
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| The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter | |
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| Listening to a Monk from Shu Playing the Lute | |
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| Farewell to a Friend | |
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| In the Quiet Night | |
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| Sitting Alone by Jingting Mountain | |
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| Question and Answer in the Mountains | |
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| du Fu (712-770) | |
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| Ballad of the Army Carts | |
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| Moonlit Night | |
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| Spring Prospect | |
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| Traveling at Night | |
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| Autumn Meditations | |
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| Yangzi and Han | |
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| bo Juyi (772-846) | |
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| Song of Unending Sorrow | |
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| Perspectives: What is "Literature"? | |
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| Cao Pi (187-226) from A Discourse on Literature | |
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| Lu Ji (261-302) from Rhymeprose on Literature | |
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| Liu Xie from The Literary Mind | |
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| Wang Changling (c. 690- c. 756) from A Discussion of Literature and Meaning | |
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| Sikong Tu (837-908) from The Twenty-four Classes of Poetry | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Japan | |
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| Man'�Sh�, Collection Of Ten Thousand Leaves (c. 702 - c. 785) | |
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| Emperor Y�ryaku (r. 456-479) Your basket, with your lovely basket | |
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| Emperor J�mei (r. 629-641) Climbing Kagu Mountain and looking upon the land | |
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| Princess Nukata (c. 638-active until 690's) On spring and autumn | |
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| Kakinomoro No Hitomaro (active 689-700) On passing the ruined capital of �mi | |
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| Kakinomoro No Hitomaro(active 689-700) On leaving his wife as he set out from Iwami | |
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| Kakinomoro No Hitomaro(active 689-700) After the death of his wife | |
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| Yamabe No Akahito (fl. 724-736) On Mount Fuji | |
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| Yamanoue No Okura (c. 660-c. 733) Of longing for his children | |
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| Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978 - c. 1014) from The Tale of Genji | |
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| The Paulownia Court | |
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| The Broom Tree | |
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| Lavender | |
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| An Autumn Excursion | |
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| Heartvine | |
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| The Sacred Tree | |
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| Suma | |
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| Akashi | |
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| Fireflies | |
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| New Herbs (Part 1) | |
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| New Herbs (Part 2) | |
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| The Oak Tree | |
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| The Rites | |
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| The Wizard | |
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| Resonances | |
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| Murasaki Shikibu: from Diary | |
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| Daughter of Sugawara No Takasue: from Sarashina Diary | |
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| Riverside Counselor's Stories: The Woman Who Preferred Insects | |
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| Perspectives: Courtly Women | |
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| Ono No Komachi (fl. c. 850) | |
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| While watching (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani) | |
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| Did he appear (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani) | |
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| When my desire (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani) | |
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| The seaweed gatherer's weary feet (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani) | |
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| The autumn night (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani) | |
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| I thought to pick (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani) | |
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| I know it must be this way (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani) | |
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| My longing for you (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani) | |
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| Though I go to him constantly (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani) | |
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| How invisibly (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani) | |
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| This body (trans. Jane Hirschfield with Aratani) | |
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| Mitchitsuna's Mother (936-995) from The KagerM Diary | |
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| Sei Sh�nagon (c. 965- c. 1017) from The Pillowbook | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Tales Of Heike (14<sup>th</sup> century) | |
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| Bells of Gion Monastery | |
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| Gio | |
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| The Death of Kiyomori | |
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| The Death of Lord Kiso | |
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| The Death of Atsumori | |
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| Death of Noritsune | |
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| The Drowning of the Emperor | |
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| The Six Paths of Existence | |
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| The Death of the Imperial Lady | |
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| Noh: Drama of Ghosts, Memories, and Salvation | |
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| Zeami (c. 1363- c. 1443) | |
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| Atsumori, a Tale of Heike Play | |
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| Pining Wind | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Ky�gen, Comic Interludes: Delicious Poison | |
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| Classical Arabic And Islamic Literatures | |
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| Pre-Islamic Poetry | |
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| Imru' Al-Qays (d. c. 550) | |
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| Mu'allaqah "Stop, let us weep at the memory of a loved one" | |
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| Al-Khansa' (c. 575-646) | |
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| A mote in your eye, dust blown on the wind? | |
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| Elegy for Ritha Sakhr "In the evening remembrance keeps me awake" | |
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| The Brigand Poets - Al Sa'Alik | |
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| Urwah ibn al-Ward, Do not be so free with your blame of me | |
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| Ta'abbata Sharra, Come, who will convey to the young men | |
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| Ta'abbata Sharra, A piece of news has come to us | |
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| The Qur'an | |
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| from Sura 41. Revelations Well Expounded | |
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| from Sura 79. The Soul Snatchers | |
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| from Sura 15. The Rocky Tract | |
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| from Sura 2. The Cow | |
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| from Sura 7. The Heights | |
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| Sura 1. The Opening | |
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| from Sura 4. Women | |
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| from Sura 5. The Table | |
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| from Sura 8. The Spoils | |
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| from Sura 12. Joseph | |
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| from Sura 16. The Bee | |
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| from Sura 18. The Cave | |
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| from Sura 19. Mary | |
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| from Sura 21. The Prophets | |
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| from Sura 24. Light | |
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| from Sura 28. The Story | |
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| from Sura 36. Ya Sin | |
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| from Sura 48. Victory | |
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| Sura 71. Noah | |
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| Sura 87. The Most High | |
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| Sura 93. Daylight | |
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| Sura 96. Clots of Blood | |
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| Sura 110. Help | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Ibn Sa'ad: from The Prophet and his Disciples (trans. Haq and Ghazanfar) | |
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| Hafiz (c. 1317 -1389) | |
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| The House of Hope | |
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| Zephyr | |
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| A Mad Heart | |
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| Cup in Hand | |
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| Last Night I Dreamed | |
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| Harvest | |
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| All My Pleasure | |
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| Wild Deer | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Blissful Yearning | |
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| Perspectives: Poetry, Wine and Love | |
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| Abu Nuwas (755 - c. 815) | |
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| Splendid young blades, like lamps in the darkness | |
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| My body is racked with sickness, worn out by exhaustion | |
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| Praise wine in its sweetness | |
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| O censor, I satisfied the Imam, he was content | |
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| Bringing the cup of oblivion for sadness | |
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| What's between me and the censurers | |
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| His friend called him Sammaja for his beauty | |
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| One possessed with a rosy cheek | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Hasab al-Shaik Ja'far: from Descent of Abu Nuwas | |
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| Ibn al-Rumi (836-889) | |
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| Say to whomever finds fault with the poem of his panegyrist | |
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| I have been deprived of all the comforts of life | |
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| I thought of you the day my journeys | |
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| Sweet sleep has been barred from my eyes | |
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| Al-Mutanabbi (915-955) | |
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| On Hearing in Egypt that his Death had been Reported | |
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| Satire on Kafur Composed... before the Poet's Departure | |
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| Panegyric to Abdud al-Daula and his sons | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| The Thousand And One Nights (9<sup>th</sup> - 14<sup>th</sup> century) | |
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| Prologue: The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad | |
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| His Vizier's Daughter | |
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| The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey | |
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| The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife | |
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| The Tale of the Porter and the Young Girls | |
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| Tale of the Second Kalander | |
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| The Tale of Zubaidah, the First of the Girls from The Tale of Sympathy the Learned, Powys Mathers after J.C. Mardrus from An Adventure of the Poet Abu Nuwas, Powys Mathers after J.C. Mardrus | |
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| The Flowering Terrace of Wit and the Garden of Gallantry | |
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| The Youth and His Master | |
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| The Wonderful Bag | |
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| Al-Rashid Judges of Love from The End of Ja'far and the Barmakids | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Resonance from The History of al-Tabari | |
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| Translations: One Thousand and One Nights | |
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| Jala Al-Din Rumi (1207-1273) | |
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| What excuses have you to offer, my heart, for so many shortcomings? | |
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| The king has come, the king has come, adorn your palace-hall | |
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| Have you ever seen any lover who was satiated with this passion? | |
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| Three days it is now since my fair one has become changed | |
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| The month of December has departed, and January too | |
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| We have become drunk, and our heart has departed | |
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| We are foes to ourselves, and friends to him who slays us | |
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| Not for a single moment do I let hold of you | |
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| Who'll take us home, now we've drunk ourselves blind? | |
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| Perspectives: Asceticism, Sufism, and Wisdom | |
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| Al-Hallaj (857-922) | |
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| I have a dear friend whom I visit in solitary places | |
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| I continued to float on the sea of love | |
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| Painful enough it is that I am ever calling out to You | |
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| Your place in my heart is the whole of my heart | |
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| You who blame me for my love of Him | |
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| I swear to God, the sun has never risen or set | |
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| Ah! I or You? These are two Gods | |
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| Here am I, here am I, O my secret, O my trust! | |
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| I am not I and I am not He; then who am I and who is He? | |
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| Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240) | |
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| O domicile without rival, neither abandoned | |
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| I am "The Reviver"-I speak not allusively | |
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| Of knowers, am I not most avaricious | |
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| Truly, my two Friends, I am a keeper of the Holy Law | |
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| Time is passing by the days of my youth and vigor | |
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| Bouts of dryness came upon me constantly from every side | |
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| Law and Soundness make of him a heretic | |
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| The time of my release, which I had always calculated | |
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| To that which they don't understand all people do oppose | |
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| The abode from which thou art absent is sad | |
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| Farid al-Din al'Attar (c. 1119- c. 1190) from The Conference of the Birds | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Firdawsi (c. 940-1020) | |
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| Shah-nama: The Book of Kings | |
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| from The Tragedy of Sohr�b and Rost�m | |
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| Ibn Battuta (1304-1369) | |
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| from The Travels of Ibn Battuta | |
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| THE EPIC OF SON-JARA | |
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| Medieval Europe | |
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| Beowulf (c. 750-950) | |
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| Resonances from The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki | |
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| Jorge Luis Borges: Poem Written in the Copy of Beowulf | |
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| The Poem Of The Cid (late 12th-early 13th century) | |
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| Perspectives: Iberia, the Meeting of Three Worlds | |
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| Castilian Ballads and Traditional Songs (c. 11<sup>th</sup> -14<sup>th</sup> century) | |
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| Ballad of Juliana | |
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| Aben�mar | |
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| These mountains, mother | |
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| I will not pick verbena | |
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| Three moorish girls | |
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| Mozarabic Kharjas (10th-early 11th century) | |
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| As if you were a stranger | |
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| Ah tell me, little sisters | |
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| My lord Ibrahim | |
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| I'll give you such love | |
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| Take me out of this plight | |
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| Mother, I shall not sleep | |
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| Ibn Hazm (c. 994-1064) from The Dove's Neckring | |
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| Ibn Rushd (Averro�;s), (1126-1198) from The Decisive Treatise Determining the Nature of the Connection | |
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| Between Religion and Philosophy | |
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| Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240) | |
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| Gentle now, doves | |
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| Solomon Ibn Gabirol (c. 1021- c. 1057) | |
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| She looked at me and her eyelids burned | |
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| Behold the sun at evening | |
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| The mind is flawed | |
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| Winter wrote with the ink of its rain and showers | |
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| Yehuda Ha-Levi (before 1075-1141) | |
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| Cups without wine are lowly | |
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| Ofra does her laundry with my tears | |
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| Once when I fondled him upon my thighs | |
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| From time's beginning, You were love's abode | |
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| Your breeze, Western shore, is perfumed | |
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| My heart is in the east | |
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| from The Book of the Khazars | |
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| Ram�n Lull (1232-1315) | |
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| from Blanquerna: The Book of the Lover and the Beloved | |
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| Dom Dinis, King of Portugal (1261-1325) | |
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| Proven�als right well may versify | |
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| Of what are you dying, daughter? | |
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| O blossoms of the verdant pine | |
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| The lovely girl arose at earliest dawn | |
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| Martin Codax (fl. mid-13th century) | |
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| Ah God, if only my love could know | |
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| My beautiful sister, come hurry with me | |
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| Oh waves that I've come to see | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Marie De France (mid-12th - early 13th century) | |
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| Lais | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Bisclavret (The Werewolf) | |
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| Chevrefoil (The Honeysuckle) | |
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| Sir Gawain And The Green Knight (late 14th century) | |
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| Abelard (c. 1079 - c. 1142) and Heloise (c. 1095 - c. 1163) from The Letters of Abelard and Heloise | |
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| Abelard: David's Lament for Jonathan | |
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| Abelard and Heloise: from Yes and No | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Bernard of Clairvaux: Letters against Abelard | |
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| from The Play Of Adam (c. 1150) | |
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| Scene 1, Adam and Eve | |
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| Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) | |
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| from La Vita Nuova | |
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| The Divine Comedy | |
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| Inferno | |
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| Purgatorio | |
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| Canto 1: Arrival at Mount Purgatory | |
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| Canto 2: The Ship of Souls | |
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| Canto 22: The Angel of Liberality | |
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| Canto 29: The Procession in the Earthly Paradise | |
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| Canto 30: Beatrice Appears | |
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| Paradiso | |
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| Canto 1: Ascent Toward the Heavens | |
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| Canto 3: The Souls Approach | |
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| Canto 31: The Celestial Rose | |
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| Canto 33: The Vision of God | |
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| Resonances | |
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| Dante's Hell | |
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| Chaucer: from The Monk's Tale | |
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| Thomas Medwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley: from Ugolino | |
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| Amiri Baraka: from The System of Dante's Hell | |
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| Translations: Dante Alighieri | |
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| Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324) from The Book of Wonders | |
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| Resonances | |
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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan | |
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| Italo Calvino: from Invisible Cities | |
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| Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) | |
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| Canterbury Tales | |
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| The General Prologue | |
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| The Miller's Prologue | |
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| The Miller's Tale | |
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| The Wife of Bath's Prologue | |
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| The Wife of Bath's Tale | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |