Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
What Should a Man Want?Arthur Waley, trans.
From “Chinese Poems”
Wang Chi—Seventh Century
Wang Chi—Seventh Century
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But to sit alone sipping his cup of wine?
I should like to have visitors come to discuss philosophy
And not to have tax-collectors coming to collect taxes;
My three sons married into good families,
My five daughters provided with steady husbands;
Then I could jog through a happy five-score years,
Craving no Cloud-ascent, no Resurrection.