Lotos und Mädchen auf dem Teich | Lotos und Mädchen | Lotosblatt und Frauenkleid

Translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928), as Jucundus Fröhlich Klabund

采蓮曲二首 (其二)

Language: Chinese (中文)

荷葉羅裙一色裁，
芙蓉向臉兩邊開。
亂入池中看不見，
聞歌始覺有人來。

Confirmed with Peng Dingqiu 彭定求 (ed.), Quan Tang shi 全唐詩 (Complete Tang Poems), Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1985.

Text Authorship:

by Wang-Chang-Ling (698 - 765), "采蓮曲二首 (其二)" [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):

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Also set in English, a translation by Charles Budd , copyright status unknown ; composed by Charles Tomlinson Griffes.
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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928) , "Lotos und Mädchen auf dem Teich", subtitle: "Wang-tschang-li", appears in Chinesische Gedichte ; composed by Leopold Spinner.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

GER German (Deutsch) (Hans Bethge) , "Die Mädchen und die Lotosblüten"

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Lotosblatt und Frauenkleid

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Chinese (中文)

Lotosblatt und Frauenkleid,
Lotosblüte, Mädchenblüte,
Weit im Teiche schwimmt dein Boot,
Und ich kann nicht unterscheiden
Mensch und Blume von euch beiden,
Weil ihr ineinander loht:
Lotosblatt und Frauenkleid,
Lotosblüte, Mädchenblüte ...

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Confirmed by Klabund, Chinesische Gedichte. Nachdichtungen, Projekt-Gutenberg

Text Authorship:

by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928), as Jucundus Fröhlich Klabund, "Lotos und Mädchen auf dem Teich", subtitle: "Wang-tschang-li", appears in Chinesische Gedichte [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Wang-Chang-Ling (698 - 765), "采蓮曲二首 (其二)"
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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):

by Leopold Spinner (1906 - 1980), "Lotos und Mädchen", 1936 [ voice and piano ], from Zwei Lieder, no. 2, Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website: 2025-08-08
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