Witter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu, trans. A Message to P'ai Ti. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

A Message to P’ai Ti

By Witter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu, trans.


From “Poems by Wang Wei” From the Chinese COLD and blue now are the mountains
From autumn-rain that beat all day.
By my thatch-door, leaning on my staff,
I listen to cicadas in the evening wind.
Sunset lingers at the ferry,	5
Cooking-smoke floats up from the houses….
Oh, when shall I pledge Chieh-yu again,
And sing a wild poem at Five Willows!