THE LITTLE REVIEW A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS MAKING NO COMPROMISE WITH THE PUBLIC TASTE Margaret C. Anderson Publisher JUNE, 1917 Chinese Poems (translated from the Chinese of Li Po by Sasaki and Maxwell Bodenheim) Push-Face jh. Improvisation Louis Gilmore Poems: William Butler Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole Presences Men Improve with the Years A Deep-Sworn Vow The Collar-Bone of a Hare Broken Dreams In Memory An Anachronism at Chinon Ezra Pound Imaginary Letters, II. Wyndham Lewis The Reader Critic Published Monthly 15 Cents a copy MARGARET C. ANDERSON, Editor EZRA POUND, Foreign Editor 31 West Fourteenth Street NEW YORK CITY $1.50 a Year Entered as second-class matter at Postoffice, New York, N. Y. The Little Review VOL. IV. JUNE 1917 NO. 2 Copyright, 1917, by Margaret C. Anderson. Chinese Poems Translated from the Chinese of Li Po by Sasaki and Maxwell Bodenheim Gently-Drunk Woman A breeze knelt upon the lotus-flowers And their odor filled a water-palace. I saw a king’s daughter Upon the roof-garden of the water-palace. She was half-drunk and she danced, Her curling body killing her strength. She grimaced languidly. She smiled and drooped over the railing Around the white, jewel-silenced floor. Perfume—Remembrance When you stayed, my house was filled with flowers. When you left, all disappeared, except our bed. I wrapped your embroidered clothes about me, And could not sleep. The perfume of your clothes has stayed three years. It will always be with me. But you will never come back. While I think of you yellow leaves outside Are dropping, and white dew-drops moisten the moss beneath them. Drunk