Witter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu, trans. Mount Chung-Nan. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Mount Chung-Nan

By Witter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu, trans.


From “Poems by Wang Wei” From the Chinese THE GREAT ONE’S height near the City of Heaven
Joins a thousand mountains to the corner of the sea.
Clouds, when I look back, close behind me;
Mists, when I enter them, are gone.
A central peak divides the wilds	5
And weather into many valleys….
Needing a place to spend the night,
I call to a wood-cutter over the river.