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The Book of Poetry, tr. by James Legge, [1876], at sacred-texts.com

This is the table of contents from the Shanghai edition.—JBH

	PART I. LESSONS FROM THE STATES
BOOK		PAGE
I.	THE ODES OF CHOU AND THE SOUTH	1
II.	THE ODES OF SHAO AND THE SOUTH	11
III.	THE ODES OF PEI	23
IV.	THE ODES OF YUNG	48
V.	THE ODES OF WEI	60
VI.	THE ODES OF THE ROYAL DOMAIN	74
VII.	THE ODES OF CHÊNG	85
VIII.	THE ODES OF CH‘I	105
IX.	THE ODES OF WEI	116
X.	THE ODES OF TANG	126
XI.	THE ODES OF CH‘IN	139
XII.	THE ODES OF CH‘ÊN	151
XIII.	THE ODES OF KUEI	159
XIV.	THE ODES OF TS‘AO	163
XV.	THE ODES OF PIN	168

	PART II. MINOR ODES OF THE KINGDOM
BOOK		PAGE
I.	THE DECADE OF LU MING	182
II.	THE DECADE OF PAI HUA	203
III.	THE DECADE OF T‘UNG KUNG	211
IV.	THE DECADE OF CH‘I FU	226
V.	THE DECADE OF HSIAO MIN	250
VI.	THE DECADE OF PEI SHAN	273
VII.	THE DECADE OF SANG HU	295
VIII.	THE DECADE OF TU JÊN SHIH	316
	p. iv

	PART III. GREATER ODES OF THE KINGDOM
BOOK		PAGE
I.	THE DECADE OF KING WÊN	331
II.	THE DECADE OF SHÊNG MIN	358
III.	THE DECADE OF TANG	386

	PART IV. ODES OF THE TEMPLE AND THE ALTAR
BOOK		PAGE
I.	THE SACRIFICIAL ODES OF CHOU
	SECTION I. THE DECADE OF CH‘ING MIAO	433
	SECTION II. THE DECADE OF CHEN KUNG	441
	SECTION III. THE DECADE OF MIN YÜ HSIAO TZŬ	450
II.	THE PRAISE ODES OF LU	462
III.	THE SACRIFICIAL ODES OF SHANG	478

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