by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)
Translation by Judith Gautier (1845 - 1917)
La fleur rouge
Language: French (Français) after the Chinese (中文)
En travaillant tristement près de ma fenêtre, je me suis piquée au doigt ; et la fleur blanche que je brodais est devenue une fleur rouge. Alors j’ai songé brusquement à celui qui est parti pour combattre les révoltés ; j’ai pensé que son sang coulait aussi, et des larmes sont tombées de mes yeux. Mais j’ai cru entendre le bruit des pas de son cheval, et je me suis levée toute joyeuse ; c’était mon cœur qui, en battant trop vite, imitait le bruit des pas de son cheval. Je me suis remise à mon ouvrage près de la fenêtre, et mes larmes ont brodé de perles l’étoffe tendue sur le métier.
Confirmed with Judith Walter (Judith Gautier), Le Livre de jade, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1867, pages 23-24. The author of the Chinese original is given as Li-Taï-Pé.
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Authorship:
- by Judith Gautier (1845 - 1917), "La fleur rouge", appears in Le livre de jade, 1867 edition, in 6. La guerre, no. 4, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1867 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762) [text unavailable]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist FRE FRE GER GER ; composed by Armande de Polignac.
- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist FRE FRE GER GER ; composed by Arthur Farwell.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955) ENG GER GER ; composed by Armande de Polignac.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Bethge (1876 - 1946) FRE FRE ; composed by Hermann Albus, Clemens Erwein Heinrich Karl Bonaventura Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein, Léonard Pieter Joseph Michielsen, James Simon.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928) FRE FRE ; composed by Walther Hirschberg, Béla Reinitz.
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Word count: 113