by Matsuo Bashō (1644 - 1694)
Translation by Harold Stewart (1916 - 1995)
The Meteor
Language: English after the Japanese (日本語)
Just as that firefly growing on a spray leaves, dropped of, it suddenly shot away!
Text Authorship:
- by Harold Stewart (1916 - 1995) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Japanese (日本語) by Matsuo Bashō (1644 - 1694) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Anna Veismane (b. 1976), "The Meteor", 2019 [ voice and piano ], from Three Haiku, no. 1, Universal Edition
Publisher: Universal Edition [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2026-06-14
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