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

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

My Retreat at Chung-Nan

By Witter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu, trans.


From “Poems by Wang Wei” From the Chinese MY heart in middle age found the Way,
And I came to dwell at the foot of this mountain.
When the spirit moves, I wander alone
Where beauty is known only to me.
I will walk till the water checks my path,	5
Then sit and watch the rising clouds,
And some day meet an old woodcutter,
And talk and laugh and never return.