Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
Answering Vice-prefect ChangWitter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu, trans.
From “Poems by Wang Wei”
From the Chinese
From the Chinese
A
Freedom from ten thousand matters.
I ask myself and always answer,
What can be better than coming home?
A wind from the pine-trees blows my sash,
And my lute is bright with the mountain-moon.
You ask me about good and evil?…
Hark, on the lake there’s a fisherman singing!