Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
A View of the Han RiverWitter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu, trans.
From “Poems by Wang Wei”
From the Chinese
From the Chinese
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And with nine streams touches the gateway of Ching:
This river runs beyond heaven and earth,
Where the color of mountains both is and is not.
The dwellings of men seem floating along
On ripples of the distant sky….
O Hsiang-yang, how your beautiful days
Make drunken my old mountain-heart!