by Chang-Wou-Kien (1879 - 1931)
Translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)
Notre bateau glisse
Language: French (Français) after the Chinese (中文)
Our translations: ENG
Notre bateau glisse sur le fleuve calme. Au delà du verger qui borde la rive, je regarde les montagnes bleues et les nuages blancs. Mon amie sommeille, la main dans l'eau. Un papillon s'est posé sur son épaule, a battu des ailes puis s'est envolé. Je l'ai suivi des yeux, longtemps. Il se dirigeait vers les montagnes de Tchang-nân. Etait-ce un papillon, ou le rêve que venait de faire mon amie ?
Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade : poésies chinoises, Paris: H. Piazza, 1922, pages 29-30.
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Notre bateau glisse...", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Chang-Wou-Kien (1879 - 1931) [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 G. Basilewsky , "Notre bateau glisse", op. 18 no. 1 [ voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes chinois, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by André Bled , "Notre bateau glisse", 1945 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Delune (1876 - 1940), "Notre bateau glisse", 1922, published 1924 [ medium voice, piano, flute ad libitum ], from Le Collier des offrandes, six poèmes lyriques d'après des poésies chinoises, no. 3, Paris, Éditions Hérelle, Fortemps, & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacqueline Despas (1893 - 1968), "Notre bateau glisse", published 1926 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poèmes Chinois Extraits de La Flûte de jade, no. 2, Éd. Jean Jobert [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marius-François Gaillard (1900 - 1973), "Notre bateau glisse", 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre mélodies chinoises, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pierre, Baron de Maurice (1868 - 1936), "Notre bateau glisse", op. 36 no. 2 (1925-1926), published [1927] [ voice and piano ], from La flûte de jade: Sept Poésies chinoises traduites par Franz Toussaint, no. 2, London, Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raymond Moulaert (1875 - 1962), "Notre bateau glisse", 1917, published 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre poèmes chinois extraits de La Flûte de Jade de Franz Toussaint, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Maurice Sénart
Score: IMSLP [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "Our boat glides ..", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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