Ming zi shi (9) "Lai ye sheng zi" 命子詩 (其九) "厲夜生子"
by Tao Yuanming 陶淵明 (365–427)
Dynasty: Jin 晉 (266–420)
Included in: Lu Qinli 逯欽立 (ed.). Xian Qin Han Wei Jin Nanbeichao shi 先秦漢魏晉南北朝詩 Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1983. Jinshi 晉詩 16.971.
Translations
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Gabriele Boege : An meinen Sohn, IX
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in: Pohl, Karl-Heinz. Der Pfirsichblütenquell. Tao Yuanming. Gesammelte Gedichte. Köln: Diederichs, 1985. p. 59. -
James Robert Hightower (1915–2006): On Naming My Son, IX
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in: Hightower, James Robert. The Poetry of T'ao Ch'ien. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. p. 35.
The translator also provides commentary to the poem on pages 35-39.
厲夜生子。遽而求火。 凡百有心。奚特於我。 既見其生。實欲其可。 人亦有言。斯情無假。