After Ch’u Yuan

I will get me to the wood
Where the gods walk garlanded in wisteria,
By the silver-blue flood move others with ivory cars.
There come forth many maidens
                to gather grapes for the leopards, my friend.
For there are leopards drawing the cars.

I will walk in the glade,
I will come out of the new thicket
                and accost the procession of maidens.
 

Credit

This poem is in the public domain. 

About this Poem

“After Ch’u Yuan” was published in Des Imagistes: An Anthology (Albert and Charles Boni, 1914).