Zhou Deqing also known by his literary name Tingzhai, a native of Gao'an (belonging to today's Jiangxi Province). He was a descendent of Zhou Bangyan, the Ci poet of the Noth Song dynasty. A master of Yuefu poetry and music, Zhou wrote as well many Sanqu poems, which had a strong influence in his time. Thrity-one short lyrics and three song sequences of his have survived, which cover a variety of topics, ranging from landscape and inner feelings to historical personalities and women's life. As he was good at music and strict with his composition, the meter of his poetry is very rigorous. The style of his poetry is fresh and graceful. Yet sometimes he can be grand and heroic.
周德清 号挺斋，高安（今属江西）人。北宋词人周邦彦后代。工乐府、精音律。所作散曲较多，在当时影响较大，现仅存小令三十一首，套数三套，题材较广泛，或写景抒情，或评价历史人物，或抒写闺情。音律严整，善于锤炼曲词，风格清丽，亦有雄放之作。
An Extempore Verse on the Xunyang River to the tune of Swan on the Autumn Fromtier
塞鸿秋·浔阳即景
The Long River stretching ten thousand miles is like a white ribbon clean,
长江万里白如练，
Huai Mountains scattering in the distance are visibly green,
淮山数点青如澱，
Like arrows in the river a few sails shuttling run,
江帆几片疾如箭，
Like a thousand-feet lightening the mountain fountain goes flying down.
山泉千尺飞如电。
The evening clouds turn into fresh dew wan,
晚云都变露，
The new moon now grows nearly round like a fan,
新月初学扇，
From the distant frontier a line of wild geese over the sky span.
塞鸿一字来如线。