Your body seems like a reed

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Chloe Zhong

Tu cuerpo parece un junco

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG

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Tu cuerpo parece un junco,
Tu cabeza una naranja, 
Tu pecho un jardin de flores 
Donde descansa mi alma.

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Confirmed with Cuentos y Poesías Populares Andaluces, coleccionados por Fernan Caballero, Sevilla, Revista Mercantil, 1859, page 263.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title [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):

by Henri Collet (1885 - 1951), "Tu cuerpo parece un junco", op. 48, published 1921 [ high voice and piano ], from Poema de un dia: Six mélodies castillanes, no. 1, Éd. A.Z. Mathot, also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in French (Français), a translation by Henri Collet (1885 - 1951) ; composed by Henri Collet.

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ENG English (Chloe Zhong) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2023-03-27
Line count: 4
Word count: 19

Your body seems like a reed

Language: English after the Spanish (Español)

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Your body seems like a reed,
Your head an orange,
Your chest a garden of flowers
Where I rest my soul.

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a text in Spanish (Español) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title
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This text was added to the website: 2023-07-21
Line count: 4
Word count: 21