by Herbert Allen Giles (1845 - 1935)
Translation by Henri Pierre Roché (1879 - 1959)
Une tortue repose sur une fleur de lotus
Language: French (Français)  after the English
Une tortue repose sur une fleur de lotus
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Text Authorship:
- by Henri Pierre Roché (1879 - 1959)
Based on:
- a text in English by Herbert Allen Giles (1845 - 1935), "A snap-shot", appears in Chinese Poetry in English Verse, first published 1898
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "丹陽湖"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Georges Auric (1899 - 1983), "Une tortue repose sur une fleur de lotus", 1913 [medium voice and piano], from Quatorze [sic] poèmes chinois [Huit en réalité], no. 4
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