by Su-Tung-Po (1037 - 1101)
Translation by Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872 - 1945)
Dreaming at Golden Hill
Language: English after the Chinese (中文)
The stranger merchants faring from the east Muffled in cotton robes, have met to feast. They drink, they revel, and they part at will, While moonlight floods the towers of Golden Hill. The third watch comes, the tide begins to flow; A fair wind follows, and in dreams I blow The reed-pipes, and have sailed to far Yangchow.
Authorship:
- by Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (1872 - 1945), "Dreaming at Golden Hill", appears in A Feast of Lanterns, first published 1916 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Su-Tung-Po (1037 - 1101) [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 Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Dreaming at Golden Hill", published 1933 [voice and piano or orchestra], from Songs from the Chinese Poets: Set VI, no. 5. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-01-18
Line count: 7
Word count: 58