| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Calligraphy | | By Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell, trans. |
| | From “Chinese Written Wall Pictures”
Liang T’ung-shu—Eighteenth Century
THE WRITING of Li Po-hai | |
| Is like the vermilion bird | |
| And the blue-green dragon. | |
| It drifts slowly as clouds drift; | |
| It has the wide swiftness of wind. | 5 |
| Hidden within it lurk the dragon and the tiger. | |
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| The writing of Chia, the official, | |
| Is like the high hat of ceremonial. | |
| It flashes like flowers in the hair, | |
| And its music is the faint, sweet tinkling | 10 |
| Of jade girdle-pendants. | |
| But I stand beside the Lang Temple, | |
| Doing nothing | |
| And speaking not at all. | | | | |
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