Here are Ezra Pound's translations of some Chinese poems.  They certainly belong to the "beautiful, but not faithful" category.

http://www.paintedricecakes.org/languagearts/poetry/cathay_pound.html

There is one advantage of these translations.  It is much easier to understand because they are in modern English while the original Chinese are ancient.

I have no clue as to what's in [道德經], other than the first two sentences, but one day a friend of mine gave me an English translation and I have no problem with it.