by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)
Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

白鹭鹚
Language: Chinese (中文) 
白鹭下秋水，
孤飞如坠霜。
心闲且未去，
独立沙洲傍。

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  • Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Armande de Polignac.
  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955) , "Le héron blanc", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920 ; composed by Odette Gartenlaub, Armande de Polignac.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928) ; composed by Volkmar Andreae, Kurt Brüggemann, Walther Hirschberg, Artur Immisch, Josef Schelb, Ernst Ludwig Uray.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Joseph Gustav Mraczek, Willy Schneider (attribution uncertain).

Researcher for this text: Dan Shen

This text was added to the website: 2010-02-05
Line count: 4
Word count: 4

Der Silberreiher
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the Chinese (中文) 
Einsam fliegt dort übern Herbstesweiher,
Grau wie alter Reif, ein Silberreiher.
Einsam steh' ich still im Ufersand,
Stehe stille und blicke in das Land.

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Researcher for this text: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-01-21
Line count: 4
Word count: 24