| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | An Evening Meeting | | By Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell, trans. |
| | From “Chinese Written Wall Pictures”
Li Hai-ku—Nineteenth Century
THE NIGHT is the color of spring mists. | |
| The lamp-flower falls, | |
| And the flame bursts out brightly. | |
| In the midst of the disorder of the dressing-table | |
| Lies a black eye-stone. | 5 |
| A golden hairpin has fallen to the ground. | |
| She leans against a screen, | |
| Arch, coquettish, welcoming his arrival. | |
| Then suddenly striking the strings of her table-lute, | |
| She sings— | 10 |
| And her face is like rain whitening the Gorge of Witches | |
| And like the bright busy movement of the Western Sea. | | | | |
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