by Paul Jean Baptiste Marie Tin-Tun-Ling (b. 1831)
Translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)
L'ombre d'une feuille d'oranger
Language: French (Français) after the Chinese (中文)
Our translations: ENG
Seule, dans sa chambre, une jeune fille brode des fleurs de soie. Tout à coup, elle entend une flûte lointaine… Elle tressaille. Elle croit qu'un jeune homme lui parle d’amour. À travers le papier de la fenêtre, l’ombre d’une feuille d’oranger vient se poser sur ses genoux… Elle ferme les yeux. Et croit qu’une main déchire sa robe.
Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade : poésies chinoises, Paris: H. Piazza, 1922, pages 92-93.
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "L'ombre d'une feuille d'oranger" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Paul Jean Baptiste Marie Tin-Tun-Ling (b. 1831) [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 Therèse Brenet (b. 1935), "L'ombre d'une feuille d'oranger", copyright © 2008 [ baritone, flute and piano ], from Poème de Jade, no. 3, Editions de la Fabrique Musique [sung text not yet checked]
- by Miloje Milojević (1884 - 1946), "L'ombre d'une feuille d'oranger", op. 39a no. 2, published 1985 [ soprano, flute, viola and piano ], from Dve pesme na tekst Franza Toussainta, no. 2, Belgrade : Udruženje kompozitora Srbije [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "The Shadow of a Leaf of an Orange Tree", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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