Category: Poetry

Profiles from China Sketches in Free Verse of People and Things Seen in the Interior

Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944· 2 chapters· 6,711 words

FROM THE INTERIOR Cormorants A Scholar The Story Teller The Well The Abandoned God The Bridge The Shop My Servant The Feast The Beggar Interlude The City Wall Woman Our Chinese Acquaintance The Spirit Wall The Most-Sacred Mountain The Dandy New China: The Iron Works Spring Med...

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1. Part 1

FROM THE INTERIOR Cormorants A Scholar The Story Teller The Well The Abandoned God The Bridge The Shop My Servant The Feast The Beggar Interlude The City Wall Woman Our Chinese...

2. Part 2

And two sounds there are, above the multitudinous crying of the city, two sounds that recur as time recurs--the great bell of the mission and the whistle of the factory. Every h...