by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)
美人在時花滿堂，/ 美人去時餘空床。
Language: Chinese (中文)
美人在時花滿堂， 美人去時餘空床。 床中鏽被卷不寢， 至今三載聞餘香。 香亦竟不滅， 人亦竟不來。 相思黃葉落， 白露濕青苔。
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Text Authorship:
- by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), no title, appears in 寄遠 (To Send Far Away), no. 11 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971) , "The Long-Departed Lover" ; composed by Constant Lambert.
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