Potential Titles: Bamboo

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When a well-lit bamboo lattice expands - Mary Jo Bang "The Doll Song"

Pines and bamboo sing in the wind - Han-Shan "[I look far off at T'ien-t'ai's summit]" transl. by Burton Watson

Quails flitted out of a bamboo tree - Joseph O. Legaspi "Childhood Elegy"

As the tigers slip like smiles through the bamboo - Stephen Leggett "Seeing Tigers"

The lamp among the bamboo - Po Chu'i "Half in the Family, Half Out" transl. by Burton Watson

Bitter bamboo growing all around my house - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

Rotting stumps of mulberry and bamboo - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson

And go out to sleep among the bamboos - Tu Fu "The Blue Robe" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Among bamboo, facing autumn darkness - Wang An-Shih "Hair white" transl. by David Hinton


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