Author: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872 - 1945)
Text Compilations
- A Feast of Lanterns
- A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China
- The Classics of Confucius. Book of Odes (Shi-King)
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- Across the willow-lake a temple shines (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (The Island of Pines)
- Across the willow-lake a temple shines (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (The Island of Pines)
- A dream of spring (Last night within my chamber's gloom) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- A dream of spring (Last night within my chamber's gloom) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- Adrift (We cannot keep the gold of yesterday) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- A feast of lanterns (In spring for sheer delight) (from A Feast of Lanterns)
- A feast of lanterns (In spring for sheer delight) (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Charles Tomlinson Griffes
- A gale goes ruffling down the stream (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (Desondent)
- A gale goes ruffling down the stream (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Despair)
- A King of Liang (There was a King of Liang -- a king of wondrous might) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - (Mary) Frances Allitsen, née Bumpus CZE
- A King of Tang (There looms a lordly pleasure-tower o'er yon dim shore) (from A Feast of Lanterns)
- Along the stream (The rustling nightfall strews my gown with roses) (from A Feast of Lanterns)
- Along the stream (The rustling nightfall strews my gown with roses) (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Peter Warlock
- A lovely maiden, roaming (A lovely maiden, roaming) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Gena Branscombe
- A lovely maiden, roaming (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Gena Branscombe (A lovely maiden, roaming)
- A lovely maiden, roaming (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (Return of Spring)
- A lovely maiden, roaming (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Return of spring)
- And there are tears (High o'er the hill the moon barque steers) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir GER
- A Night on the Mountain (I sat upon the mountain-side and watched) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- A thing of stone beside Lake Kouen-ming (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (The celestial weaver)
- A thing of stone beside Lake Kouen-ming (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (The celestial weaver)
- Athwart the bed I watch the moonbeams cast a trail (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) FIN GER GER SLN FRE (Thoughts in a tranquil night)
- Athwart the bed (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) FIN GER GER SLN FRE - Gena Branscombe (My Fatherland)
- Athwart the bed (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) FIN GER GER SLN FRE (Thoughts in a tranquil night)
- Autumn across the Frontier (The last red leaves droop sadly o'er the slain) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- Autumn across the Frontier (The last red leaves droop sadly o'er the slain) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- A world apart (The Lady Moon is my lover) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- Clad in blue silk and bright embroidery (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (Tears in the Spring)
- Clad in blue silk and bright embroidery (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (The Kingfisher's Tower)
- Death would have ravished her some hapless day (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (The tomb of Chao-Chün)
- Desolation (There was a King of Liang -- a king of wondrous might) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) CZE
- Desolation (There was a King of Liang -- a king of wondrous might) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir CZE
- Desondent (A gale goes ruffling down the stream) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- Despair (A gale goes ruffling down the stream) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- Disappointment (Still moonlight floods the inner gallery) (from A Feast of Lanterns)
- Down by the eastern gate (from The Classics of Confucius. Book of Odes (Shi-King)) GER - (Mary) Frances Allitsen, née Bumpus (The nightless [sic] tryst)
- Down by the eastern gate (from The Classics of Confucius. Book of Odes (Shi-King)) GER (The nightlong tryst)
- Down the Hwai (Into the night the sounds of luting flow) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- Dreaming at Golden Hill (The stranger merchants faring from the east) (from A Feast of Lanterns)
- Dreaming at Golden Hill (The stranger merchants faring from the east) (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- Drifting (We cannot keep the gold of yesterday) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- Exile (Through the green blinds that shelter me) (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- Fair is the pine grove and the mountain stream (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Gena Branscombe (Fair is the pine grove)
- Fair is the pine grove and the mountain stream (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (Fascination)
- Fair is the pine grove (Fair is the pine grove and the mountain stream) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Gena Branscombe
- Fascination (Fair is the pine grove and the mountain stream) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- From silver lamps a thin blue smoke is streaming (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (The last revel)
- From silver lamps a thin blue smoke is streaming (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (The last revel)
- From the tomb of an unknown woman (Mother of Pity, hear my prayer) (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- Furl your sail! O furl your sail! - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Song of the peach-blossom fountain)
- Galloping home (Surely there sings no lighter heart than mine beneath the sky!) (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- High o'er the hills (High o'er the hill the moon barque steers) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - (Mary) Frances Allitsen, née Bumpus GER
- High o'er the hill the moon barque steers (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) GER - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (And there are tears)
- High o'er the hill the moon barque steers (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) GER - (Mary) Frances Allitsen, née Bumpus (High o'er the hills)
- High o'er the hill the moon barque steers (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) GER (Tears)
- High o'er the hill the moon barque steers (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) GER - Gary Bachlund, Hugh Dixon, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Emerson Whithorne (Tears)
- Home (Surely there sings no lighter heart than mine beneath the sky!) (from A Feast of Lanterns)
- In exile (Through the green blinds that shelter me) (from A Feast of Lanterns)
- In spring for sheer delight (from A Feast of Lanterns) (A feast of lanterns)
- In spring for sheer delight (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Charles Tomlinson Griffes (A feast of lanterns)
- In the Yellow Dusk (The yellow dusk winds round the city wall) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Edward Horsman
- Into the night the sounds of luting flow (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Down the Hwai)
- Into the night the sounds of luting flow (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (The River and the Leaf)
- In Yung-Yang (I was a child in Yung-yang) (from A Feast of Lanterns)
- I sat upon the mountain-side and watched (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (A Night on the Mountain)
- I sat upon the mountain-side and watched (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Night on the mountain)
- I was a child in Yung-yang (from A Feast of Lanterns) (In Yung-Yang)
- I was a child in Yung-yang (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Yung-Yang)
- Last night within my chamber's gloom (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (A dream of spring)
- Last night within my chamber's gloom (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (A dream of spring)
- Lines from the tomb of an unknown woman (Mother of Pity, hear my prayer) (from A Feast of Lanterns)
- Memories with dusk return (The yellow dusk winds round the city wall) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- Memories with the dusk return (The yellow dusk winds round the city wall) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- Mother of Pity, hear my prayer (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (From the tomb of an unknown woman)
- Mother of Pity, hear my prayer (from A Feast of Lanterns) (Lines from the tomb of an unknown woman)
- My Fatherland (Athwart the bed) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Gena Branscombe FIN GER GER SLN FRE
- Night on the mountain (I sat upon the mountain-side and watched) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- On the banks of Jo-Eh (They gather lilies down the stream) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir FRE
- On the Banks of Jo-yeh (They gather lilies down the stream) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) FRE
- O willow flowers like flakes of snow (from A Feast of Lanterns) (Willow flowers)
- O willow flowers like flakes of snow (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Willow flowers)
- Rain from the mountains of Ki-Sho (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (The court of dreams)
- Rain from the mountains of Ki-Sho (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (The court of dreams)
- Red trees, green hills in the sunset, and steppes of boundless grass (from A Feast of Lanterns) (The pavilion of abounding joy)
- Red trees, green hills in the sunset, and steppes of boundless grass (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (The pavilion of abounding joy)
- Return of Spring (A lovely maiden, roaming) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- Return of spring (A lovely maiden, roaming) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- Song of the peach-blossom fountain (Furl your sail! O furl your sail!) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- Still moonlight floods the inner gallery (from A Feast of Lanterns) (Disappointment)
- Still moonlight floods the inner gallery (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Emerson Whithorne (The golden nenuphar)
- Surely there sings no lighter heart than mine beneath the sky! (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Galloping home)
- Surely there sings no lighter heart than mine beneath the sky! (from A Feast of Lanterns) (Home)
- Tears in the Spring (Clad in blue silk and bright embroidery) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- Tears (High o'er the hill the moon barque steers) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) GER
- Tears (High o'er the hill the moon barque steers) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Gary Bachlund, Hugh Dixon, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Emerson Whithorne GER
- The celestial weaver (A thing of stone beside Lake Kouen-ming) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- The celestial weaver (A thing of stone beside Lake Kouen-ming) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- The court of dreams (Rain from the mountains of Ki-Sho) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- The court of dreams (Rain from the mountains of Ki-Sho) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- The ghost road (The winds and the pines are whispering) (from A Feast of Lanterns)
- The ghost road (The winds and the pines are whispering) (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- The golden nenuphar (Still moonlight floods the inner gallery) (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Emerson Whithorne
- The Island of Pines (Across the willow-lake a temple shines) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- The Island of Pines (Across the willow-lake a temple shines) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- The Kingfisher's Tower (Clad in blue silk and bright embroidery) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- The King of Liang (There was a King of Liang -- a king of wondrous might) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Emerson Whithorne CZE
- The King of Tang (There looms a lordly pleasure-tower o'er yon dim shore) (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- The Lady Moon is my lover (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (A world apart)
- The Lady Moon is my lover (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (The old fisherman of the mists and waters)
- The Lady Moon is my lover (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Edward Horsman (Thus wisdom sings)
- The last red leaves droop sadly o'er the slain (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (Autumn across the Frontier)
- The last red leaves droop sadly o'er the slain (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Autumn across the Frontier)
- The last revel (From silver lamps a thin blue smoke is streaming) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- The last revel (From silver lamps a thin blue smoke is streaming) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- The lost one (The red gleam o'er the mountains) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- The lost one (The red gleam o'er the mountains) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- The moon surprised us scattered round the tomb (from A Feast of Lanterns)
- The nightless [sic] tryst (Down by the eastern gate) (from The Classics of Confucius. Book of Odes (Shi-King)) - (Mary) Frances Allitsen, née Bumpus GER
- The nightlong tryst (Down by the eastern gate) (from The Classics of Confucius. Book of Odes (Shi-King)) GER
- The old fisherman of the mists and waters (The Lady Moon is my lover) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- The pavilion of abounding joy (Red trees, green hills in the sunset, and steppes of boundless grass) (from A Feast of Lanterns)
- The pavilion of abounding joy (Red trees, green hills in the sunset, and steppes of boundless grass) (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- The red gleam o'er the mountains (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (The lost one)
- The red gleam o'er the mountains (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (The lost one)
- There looms a lordly pleasure-tower o'er yon dim shore (from A Feast of Lanterns) (A King of Tang)
- There looms a lordly pleasure-tower o'er yon dim shore (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (The King of Tang)
- There was a King of Liang -- a king of wondrous might (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) CZE - (Mary) Frances Allitsen, née Bumpus (A King of Liang)
- There was a King of Liang -- a king of wondrous might (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) CZE (Desolation)
- There was a King of Liang -- a king of wondrous might (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) CZE - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Desolation)
- There was a King of Liang -- a king of wondrous might (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) CZE - Emerson Whithorne (The King of Liang)
- There was a King of Liang -- a king of wondrous might (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) CZE - Gena Branscombe (There was a King of Liang)
- There was a King of Liang (There was a King of Liang -- a king of wondrous might) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Gena Branscombe CZE
- The River and the Leaf (Into the night the sounds of luting flow) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- The rustling nightfall strews my gown with roses (from A Feast of Lanterns) (Along the stream)
- The rustling nightfall strews my gown with roses (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Peter Warlock (Along the stream)
- The stranger merchants faring from the east (from A Feast of Lanterns) (Dreaming at Golden Hill)
- The stranger merchants faring from the east (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Dreaming at Golden Hill)
- The tomb of Chao-Chün (Death would have ravished her some hapless day) (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- The waning moon () - (Mary) Frances Allitsen, née Bumpus [x]
- The winds and the pines are whispering (from A Feast of Lanterns) (The ghost road)
- The winds and the pines are whispering (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (The ghost road)
- The yellow dusk winds round the city wall (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Edward Horsman (In the Yellow Dusk)
- The yellow dusk winds round the city wall (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (Memories with dusk return)
- The yellow dusk winds round the city wall (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Memories with the dusk return)
- They gather lilies down the stream (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) FRE - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (On the banks of Jo-Eh)
- They gather lilies down the stream (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) FRE (On the Banks of Jo-yeh)
- Thoughts in a tranquil night (Athwart the bed) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) FIN GER GER SLN FRE
- Through the green blinds that shelter me (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Exile)
- Through the green blinds that shelter me (from A Feast of Lanterns) (In exile)
- Thus wisdom sings (The Lady Moon is my lover) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Edward Horsman
- Under the crescent moon's faint glow (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (Under the moon)
- Under the crescent moon's faint glow (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Under the moon)
- Under the moon (Under the crescent moon's faint glow) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China)
- Under the moon (Under the crescent moon's faint glow) (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- We cannot keep the gold of yesterday (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Adrift)
- We cannot keep the gold of yesterday (from A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China) (Drifting)
- When wild geese leave the uplands lone (from A Feast of Lanterns) (Wild geese)
- When wild geese leave the uplands lone (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (Wild geese)
- Wild geese (When wild geese leave the uplands lone) (from A Feast of Lanterns)
- Wild geese (When wild geese leave the uplands lone) (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- Willow flowers (O willow flowers like flakes of snow) (from A Feast of Lanterns)
- Willow flowers (O willow flowers like flakes of snow) (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- Yung-Yang (I was a child in Yung-yang) (from A Feast of Lanterns) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
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