A song of the Southern River | Since I married the merchant of Ch'üt'ang

by Li Yi (748 - 829)

Translation by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968)

江南曲

Language: Chinese (中文)

嫁得瞿塘賈，
朝朝誤妾期。
早知潮有信，
嫁與弄潮兒。

Text Authorship:

by Li Yi (748 - 829), "江南曲" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in English, a translation by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968) , "A song of the Southern River", appears in The Jade Mountain, first published 1929 ; composed by Edmund Duncan Rubbra.

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A song of the Southern River

Language: English after the Chinese (中文)

Our translations: GER

Since I married the merchant of Ch'üt'ang
He has failed each day to keep his word.
Had I thought how regular the tide is,
I might rather have chosen a riverboy.

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Text Authorship:

by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968), "A song of the Southern River", appears in The Jade Mountain, first published 1929 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Li Yi (748 - 829), "江南曲"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Edmund Duncan Rubbra (1901 - 1986), "A song of the Southern River", op. 116 no. 4 (1962) [ soprano and harp ], from The Jade Mountain, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-25
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Word count: 31