by Tao Yuanming (365/372 - 427)
Translation © by Arthur Waley (1889 - 1969)
Flood
Language: English after the Chinese (中文)
The lingering clouds, rolling, rolling [ ... ]
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Confirmed with Arthur Waley, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1919, p.115
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Waley (1889 - 1969), "Flood", appears in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Tao Yuanming (365/372 - 427) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Alice Ho (b. 1960), "Flood", 2009 [ soprano, flute, violin, violoncello and piano ], from Three Songs From Tang Dynasty, no. 3
Score: plangere Editions [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
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