Potential Titles: Pao Chao aka Bao Zhao

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Bao Zhao is the more correct form of the poet's name, but Pao Chao is what was used in the Project Gutenberg book where I found these. This is on my list of things to correct, but I may never get to it because it will take hours.


Spoons of jade mixing magic cinnabar - Pao Chao "In Imitation of 'The King of Huai-nan'" transl. by Burton Watson

Nine gates to the vermilion city - Pao Chao "In Imitation of 'The King of Huai-nan'" transl. by Burton Watson

A fastness of double rivers - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Wealth to be wrung from fields of salt - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

With magnets to guard against assault - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Russet clay to lend the fancy of design - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Halls are laced with vipers - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Musk deer and flying squirrels quarrel by the stairs - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Howl at the wind, whimper in the rain - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Hungry falcons whet their beaks - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

A jungle of weeds and brush - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Do not lie dwindling in the dust - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

To make so many taste sorrow - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson


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