美人在時花滿堂， 美人去時餘空床。 床中鏽被卷不寢， 至今三載聞餘香。 香亦竟不滅， 人亦竟不來。 相思黃葉落， 白露濕青苔。
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Text Authorship:
- by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), no title, appears in 寄遠 (To Send Far Away), no. 11
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Researcher for this page: Shun Yan
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Fair one, when you were here, I filled the house with flowers. Fair one, now you are gone — only an empty couch is left. On the couch the embroidered quilt is rolled up; I cannot sleep. It is three years since you went. The perfume you left behind haunts me still. The perfume floats about me forever, But where are you, Beloved? I sigh — the yellow leaves fall from the branch, I weep — the dew twinkles white on the green mosses.
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Composition:
- Set to music by Constant Lambert (1905 - 1951), "The Long-Departed Lover", 1926, published 1927 [ voice and piano ], from Eight Poems of Li-Po, no. 8
Text Authorship:
- by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971), "The Long-Departed Lover"
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), no title, appears in 寄遠 (To Send Far Away), no. 11
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Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Martin Jahn
This text was added to the website: 2025-02-06
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Word count: 84