ゆめではな いかとゆめ みながらも 夢に夢見る めうなゆめ
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Yume de wa nai ka Yume minagara mo Yume ni yumemiru Muõ na yume
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982) , no title, appears in One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, no. 44 ; composed by Karólína Eiríksdóttir.
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I said in my dream [ ... ]
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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 Kenneth Rexroth, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, p.96
Text Authorship:
- by Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982), no title, appears in One Hundred Poems from the Japanese, no. 44, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Japanese (日本語) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Karólína Eiríksdóttir (b. 1951), 1977 [ soprano, flute and violoncello ], from Six Poems From the Japanese, no.
Publisher: Iceland Music [external link] [sung text not yet checked]
This text was added to the website: 2026-07-12
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