| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | A Green Stream | | By Witter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu, trans. |
| | From “Poems by Wang Wei”
From the Chinese
I HAVE come on the River of Yellow Flowers, | |
| Borne by the current of a green stream | |
| Rounding ten thousand turns through the mountains | |
| To journey less than a hundred li. | |
| Rapids hum on scattered stones, | 5 |
| Light is dim in the close pines, | |
| The surface of an inlet sways with nut-horns, | |
| Weeds are lush along the banks. | |
| Down in my heart I have always been clear | |
| As this clarity of waters. | 10 |
| Oh, to remain on a broad flat rock | |
| And cast my fishing-line forever! | | | | |
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