Witter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu, trans. Bound Home to Mount Sung. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Bound Home to Mount Sung

By Witter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu, trans.


From “Poems by Wang Wei” From the Chinese THE LIMPID river, past its bushes
Flowing slowly as my chariot,
Seems a fellow-voyager
Returning with the evening-birds.
A ruined city-wall overtops an old ferry,	5
Autumn sunset floods the peaks….
Far away, beside Mount Sung,
I shall rest and close my door.