382. Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar by Allen Upward. The Coral Fisher. Monroe, Harriet, ed. 1917. The New Poetry: An Anthology

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

382. Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar

The Coral Fisher

By Allen Upward


THE CORAL fisher, who had been a long time beneath the water, rose to the surface with nothing in his hand but a spray of crimson seaweed. In answer to the master of the junk he said, “While I was in the world of fishes this miserable weed appeared to me more beautiful than coral.”