Columbia Granger's World of Poetry -- this is a subscription database.

Index to 450,000 poems; 250,000 full text. With commentaries; biographies; a glossary; foreign language poetry; translations; and audio recordings. Includes either the full text or first/last line and citation. Biographical information also provided in many cases. 

• Choose advanced search and then Nationality: Chinese Poetry.  Use Subject: lotus or loneliness ... 

Look for anthologies on reserve for your class

• See especially the "General Index" (p. 1195+) in
  Anthology of Chinese Literature RESERVE PL 2658 .E1 .A814 1996

Look in the Five College Library Catalog under the SUBJECT; Chinese poetry - esp. Chinese poetry translations into English

Visit these web pages:

Chinese Poems- which has a minimal subject index

Google Books
Includes a number of full-text anthologies of Chinese poetry in English translation

Sharon Domier

East Asian Studies Librarian 

thursdays @ Smith otherwise

by email: sdomier@smith.edu