by Wang-Chang-Ling (698 - 765)
閨怨
Language: Chinese (中文)
閨中少婦不曾愁， 春日凝妝上翠樓。 忽見陌頭楊柳色， 悔教夫婿覓封侯。
Confirmed with Peng Dingqiu 彭定求 (ed.), Quan Tang shi 全唐詩 (Complete Tang Poems), Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1985.
Text Authorship:
- by Wang-Chang-Ling (698 - 765), "閨怨", written 750 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872 - 1945) , "Tears in the Spring", appears in A Lute of Jade, being selections from the classical poets of China, first published 1909 ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir.
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