On a road outreaching the white clouds, By a spring outrunning the bluest river, Petals come drifting on the wind And the brook is sweet with them all the way. My quiet gate is a mountain-trail, And the willow-trees about my cottage Sift on my sleeve, through the shadowy noon, Distillations of the sun.
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Text Authorship:
- by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968), "A poem", appears in The Jade Mountain, first published 1929 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Liu Jixu , "闕題"
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 ]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-07-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 54
På en väg som når längre än de vita molnen, längs en källa som löper ifatt den blåaste floden kommer blomblad flygande med vinden, och bäcken doftar av dem hela vägen. Min trädgård öppnar sig mot berget, pilträden kring min hydda sila solljus i droppar genom middagsskuggan.
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Text Authorship:
- by Erik Blomberg (1894 - 1965), appears in Jadeberget, kinesisk lyrik från Tangdynastin 618-906 , first published 1944 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968), "A poem", appears in The Jade Mountain, first published 1929
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Liu Jixu , "闕題"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Hilding Rosenberg (1892 - 1985), "Poem", 1945 [ voice and piano ], from 14 kinesiska sånger, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2023-09-14
Line count: 7
Word count: 47