Spring | The lovely Lo-foh of the land of Chin

by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)

Translation by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971)

春歌

Language: Chinese (中文)

秦地羅敷女，
採桑綠水邊。
素手青條上，
紅妝白日鮮。
蠶饑妾欲去，
五馬莫留連。

The following Cantonese transliteration uses the Jyutping system outlined by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. Numbers on the right of each syllable are tone marks.

Title: Dung1 go1

Ceon4 dei6 lo4 fu1 neoi5,
Coi2 song1 luk6 seoi2 bin1.
Sou3 sau2 cing1 tiu4 soeng6,
Hung4 zong1 baak6 jat6 sin1.
Caam4 gei1 cip3 juk6 heoi3,
Ng5 maa5 mok6 lau4 lin4.

The following Mandarin transliteration conforms to the Pinyin romanization rules drafted by Mainland China.

Title: Zǐyè sìshí gē

Qín dì Luófū nǚ,
Cǎi sāng lù shǔi biān.
Sù shǒu qīng tiáo shàng,
Hóng zhuāng bái rì xīan.
Cán jī qiè yù qù,
Wǔ mǎ mò liú lián.

Text Authorship:

by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "春歌" [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 Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971) , first published 1922 ; composed by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir.

Researcher for this page: Lucas Shum

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-08
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Spring

Language: English after the Chinese (中文)

The lovely Lo-foh of the land of Chin,
Is plucking mulberry leaves by the blue water.
On the green boughs her white arms gleam,
And the bright sun shines upon her scarlet dress.
"My silkworms", says she, "are hungry; I must go.
Tarry not with your five horses, Prince, I pray."

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Text Authorship:

by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971), first published 1922 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "春歌"
- Go to the text page.

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), "Spring", 1923, published 1924 [ voice and piano ], from The ballads of the four seasons, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-08
Line count: 6
Word count: 51