by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)

雙燕離
Language: Chinese (中文) 
雙燕復雙燕，
雙飛令人羨。
玉樓珠閣不獨棲，
金窗繡戶長相見。
柏梁失火去，
因入吳王宮。
吳宮又焚蕩，
雛盡巢亦空。
憔悴一身在，
孀雌憶故雄。
雙飛難再得，
傷我寸心中。

Confirmed with Peng Dingqiu 彭定求 (ed.), Quan Tang shi 全唐詩 (Complete Tang Poems), Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1985. 163.1690.


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  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955) ; composed by Marie Marjori Hajary.

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  • ENG English (Shigeyoshi Obata) , "A Pair of Swallows"


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