by Wang-Chang-Ling (698 - 765)
Translation by Hans Bethge (1876 - 1946)
西宮秋怨
Language: Chinese (中文)
芙蓉不及美人妝， 水殿風來珠翠香。 誰分含啼掩秋扇， 空懸明月待君王。
Confirmed with Peng Dingqiu 彭定求 (ed.), Quan Tang shi 全唐詩 (Complete Tang Poems), Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1985.
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- by Wang-Chang-Ling (698 - 765), "西宮秋怨" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Bethge (1876 - 1946) , "Die jungen Mädchen von einst", appears in Die chinesische Flöte ; composed by Clemens von Franckenstein, Werner Wehrli.
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Die jungen Mädchen von einst
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Language: German (Deutsch) after the Chinese (中文)
Von einst die jungen Mädchen ruhen sich In blühendem Gebüsch und plaudern leise. „Man sagt”, so flüstern sie, „wir seien alt, Und unsre Haare seien weiß geworden, Und unsre Gesichter seien nicht Mehr süß und strahlend wie der junge Mond. Was wissen wir davon? Kann man selber sich Denn sehen? Freundinnen, nicht unter uns -- Nein, in in dem Spiegel herrscht der böse Winter, Der weißen Schnee auf unsre Haare schüttet Und unsre Mienen alt erscheinen läßt.
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Confirmed with Hans Bethge, Die chinesische Flöte, Insel Verlag, 1918, page 20.
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- by Hans Bethge (1876 - 1946), "Die jungen Mädchen von einst", appears in Die chinesische Flöte [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- a text in Chinese (中文) by Wang-Chang-Ling (698 - 765), "西宮秋怨"
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