鏡湖水如月， 耶溪女似雪。 新妝蕩新波， 光景兩奇絕。
Text Authorship:
- by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), title 1: "鏡湖水如月", title 2: "越女詞五首" [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):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971) , "The women of Yueh V", appears in Li Po, the Chinese poet, done into English verse ; composed by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir, Phyllis Campbell.
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The water [of]1 the Mirror Lake Is clear like the moon. The girl of Yeh-chi Has a face white as snow -- Her silvery image Trembles in the silvery ripple.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Shigeyoshi Obata, The Works of Li-Po, the Chinese poet ;: done into English verse by Shigeyoshi Obata, London : Dent, 1923, p.52
1 Bliss: "in"Text Authorship:
- by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971), "The women of Yueh V", appears in Li Po, the Chinese poet, done into English verse [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), title 1: "鏡湖水如月", title 2: "越女詞五首"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891 - 1975), "The water in the Mirror Lake", 1923, published 1924, first performed 1923 [ voice, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, string quartet, contrabass, percussion ], from The Women of Yueh, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Phyllis Campbell (1891 - 1974), "The Mirror Lake", copyright © 2018 [ voice and piano ], from Three poems by Li-Po, no. 3, Wirripang Pty Ltd [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2022-01-01
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