| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | On Seeing the Portrait of a Beautiful Concubine | | By Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell, trans. |
| | From “Chinese Written Wall Pictures”
Ch’en Hung-Shou—Nineteenth Century
FINE rain, | |
| Spring mud | |
| Slippery as bean curds. | |
| In a rose-red flash, she approaches— | |
| Red like wine; | 5 |
| Tottering as though overcome with wine. | |
| Her little feet slip on the sliding path— | |
| Who will support her? | |
| Clearly it is her picture | |
| We see here, | 10 |
| In a rose-red silken dress, | |
| Her hair plaited like the folds | |
| Of the hundred clouds. | |
| It is Manshu. | | | | |
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