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Isaiah 2:1-5: "This shall come to pass in future days"

Psalm 3: "O Lord, how my sorrows have multiplied!"

Psalm 95: "Come, let us ring out our joy to the Lord"

Virgil, Eclogues 4

Horace, Odes 1.4: "Spring's pleasant return, with western winds"

Horace, Odes 1.9: "See how the deep snow shines on Mount Soracte"

Horace, Odes 1.11: "Stop searching after – it's forbidden to know"

Horace, Odes 2.12: "You wouldn't ask the long wars of fierce Numantia"

Propertius, Elegies 2.26c: "Or if my girl thinks about wandering the wide sea"

Longer works:

Lu Ji, Rhapsody on Literature

text | translator's note

Individual poems:

Anonymous, "The ballad of Mulan"

Jia Dao, "After finishing a poem"

Li Shangyin, "Sent north on a rainy night"

Li Shangyin, "Up to the plains of merriment"

Li Zhiyi, "River girl's song"

Liu Zhen, "Uncategorized poem" (office work)

Lu Xun, "Written after the January 28th conflict"

Lu You, "Ode to plum blossoms"

Meng Haoran, "Spring dawn"

Shen Yue, "Six memories: four poems"

Wang Anshi, "On a Stream in Tiantongshan"

Wang Anshi, "Plum blossoms"

Yue Fei, "Man Jiang Hong (The river runs red)"

Zhang Ji, "Moored at Night by Maple Bridge"

Zhuo Wenjun, "Counting-number poem"

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