by Ch'ên Tzǔ-ang (656/661 - 702)
Translation © by Harold Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968) and by Kiang Kang-hu (1883 - 1954)
Where, before me, are the ages that have...
Language: English after the Chinese (中文)
Where, before me, are the ages that have gone? [ ... ]
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Confirmed with The Jade Mountain, translated by Witter Bynner and Jiang Kanghu, compiled by Sun Zhu, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1929, p.15
Text Authorship:
- by Harold Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968), "On a Gate-Tower at Yo-chou", appears in The Jade Mountain, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- by Kiang Kang-hu (1883 - 1954), "On a Gate-Tower at Yo-chou", appears in The Jade Mountain, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Ch'ên Tzǔ-ang (656/661 - 702) [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 Lori F. Ardovino (b. 1960), "On a Gate-Tower", copyright © 2024 [ soprano, alto saxophone and piano ], from Drinking With The Moon Alone, no. 3, Potenza Music Publishing
Publisher: Potenza Music Publishing [external link] [sung text not yet checked]
This text was added to the website: 2026-11-06
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