by Lady Akazome Emon (flourished 11th century)
Translation © by Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982)
Lady Akazome Emon
Language: English after the Japanese (日本語)
I should not have waited [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Japanese (日本語) by Lady Akazome Emon (flourished 11th century) [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 Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (b. 1941), "Lady Akazome Emon", 1979 [soprano, piano, and percussion], from Herstory II: 13 Japanese Lyrics, no. 9. [ sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2007-08-17
Line count: 5
Word count: 27