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by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)
Translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928)

白鹭鹚
Language: Chinese (中文) 
Our translations:  ENG
白鹭下秋水,
孤飞如坠霜。
心闲且未去,
独立沙洲傍。

Text Authorship:

  • by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "白鹭鹚" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Armande de Polignac.
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  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955) , "Le héron blanc", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920 ; composed by Odette Gartenlaub, Armande de Polignac.
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  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928) ; composed by Niklaus Aeschbacher, Volkmar Andreae, John Borstlap, Kurt Brüggemann, Walther Hirschberg, Artur Immisch, Josef Schelb, Ernst Ludwig Uray.
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  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Joseph Gustav Mraczek, Willy Schneider (attribution uncertain).
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Ethan Fan) , "White Egret", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Dan Shen

This text was added to the website: 2010-02-05
Line count: 4
Word count: 4

Der Silberreiher
NOTE: the footnotes have been removed from this text; return to general view
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the Chinese (中文) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG
Im Herbst kreist überm grauen Weiher
Von Schnee bereift ein alter Silberreiher.
Ich stehe einsam an des Weihers Strand,
Die Hand am Blick, und äuge stumm ins Land.

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•   E. Uray 

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Text Authorship:

  • by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "白鹭鹚"
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Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani

This text was added to the website: 2007-08-17
Line count: 4
Word count: 29

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