by Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925)
Incessant the buzzing of insects beyond...
Language: English
Incessant the buzzing of insects beyond the orchid curtain. The moon flings slanting shadows from the pepper-trees across the courtyard. Pity the girl of the flowery house, Who is not equal to the blossoms Of Lo Yang.
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Confirmed with Florence Wheelock Ayscough & Amy Lowell, Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated from the Chinese, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921
Text Authorship:
- by Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925), "Ch'in, the 'Fire-bird with plumage white as jade,' longs for her lover", appears in Fir-Flower Tablets. Poems from the Chinese, in Songs of the Courtesans, no. 4 [author's text checked 1 time 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):
- by Catherine Urner (1891 - 1942), "Songs of the Courtesans" [ soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello, piano ], from Four Songs (from Fir Flower Tablets), no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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