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Title: Profiles from China
Author: Eunice Tietjens
Release Date: August 5, 2004 [eBook #13118]
Language: English
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PROFILES FROM CHINA
Sketches in Free Verse of People and Things Seen in the Interior
by
EUNICE TIETJENS
1917
To My Mother
CONTENTS
PROEM
The Hand
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
Meditation
Chinese New Year
ECHOES
Crepuscule
Festival of the Dragon Boats
Kang Yi
Poetics
A Lament of Scarlet Cloud
The Son of Heaven
The Dream
Feng-Shui
CHINA OF THE TOURISTS
Reflections in a Ricksha
The Camels
The Connoisseur: An American
Sunday in the British Empire: Hong Kong
On the Canton River Boat
The Altar of Heaven
The Chair Ride
The Sikh Policeman: a British Subject
The Lady of Easy Virtue: an American
In the Mixed Court: Shanghai
Proem
Profiles
from
China
The Hand
As you sit so, in the firelight, your hand is the color of
new bronze.
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