| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | One Goes a Journey | | By Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell, trans. |
| | From “Chinese Written Wall Pictures”
Liu Shih-an—Eighteenth Century
HE is going to the T’ung T’ing lake, | |
| My friend whom I have loved so many years. | |
| The spring wind startles the willows | |
| And they break into pale leaf. | |
| I go with my friend | 5 |
| As far as the river-bank. | |
| He is gone— | |
| And my mind is filled and overflowing | |
| With the things I did not say. | |
| Again the white water-flower | 10 |
| Is ripe for plucking. | |
| The green pointed swords of the iris | |
| Splinter the brown earth. | |
| To the south of the river | |
| Are many cinnamon trees. | 15 |
| I gather branches of them to give to my friend | |
| At his return. | | | | |
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