白鹭鹚
Language: Chinese (中文)
Available translation(s): ENG
白鹭下秋水，
孤飞如坠霜。
心闲且未去，
独立沙洲傍。
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Armande de Polignac.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955) , "Le héron blanc", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920 ; composed by Odette Gartenlaub, Armande de Polignac.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928) ; composed by Volkmar Andreae, Kurt Brüggemann, Walther Hirschberg, Artur Immisch, Josef Schelb, Ernst Ludwig Uray.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Joseph Gustav Mraczek, Willy Schneider (attribution uncertain).
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Ethan Fan) , "White Egret", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Dan Shen
This text was added to the website: 2010-02-05
Line count: 4
Word count: 4
White Egret
Language: English after the Chinese (中文)
A white egret glides down autumn water,
Flying in solitude like falling frost.
An idle heart in no rush to go,
Standing alone by a sandbar.
Translator's notes
Line 1: Autumn water, describing a broad and flat body of water.
Li Bo is among the most famous and influential ancient Chinese poets, with over a thousand of his works having been preserved. One of the romantic artistic techniques of Li Bo's poetry is the combination of personification and metaphor, describing things, and relating things to people. For example, White Egret uses the descriptions of egret, hoarfrost, autumn water and a sandbar, literally depicting a deserted environment and a lone white egret, but represents the people outside the painting facing the bleak autumn, feeling lonely in the journey away from home and friends.
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Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "白鹭鹚"
This text was added to the website: 2022-09-19
Line count: 4
Word count: 26