山毛榉银皮和蜡妆/ 黄桦的树皮和色黄

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by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)

Translation © by Dr Huaixing Wang

Silver bark of beech, and sallow

Language: English

Our translations: CHI

Silver bark of beech, and sallow
Bark of yellow birch and yellow
Twig of willow.

Stripe of green in moosewood maple,
Colour seen in leaf of apple,
Bark of popple.

Wood of popple pale as moonbeam,
Wood of oak for yoke and barn-beam,
Wood of hornbeam.

Silver bark of beech, and hollow
Stem of elder, tall and yellow
Twig of willow.

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Text Authorship:

by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "Counting-out rhyme" [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 Rick Sowash (b. 1950), "Twig of willow", 1969 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], revised 2000 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2017-04-20
Line count: 12
Word count: 61

山毛榉银皮和蜡妆/ 黄桦的树皮和色黄

Language: Chinese (中文) after the English

山毛榉银皮和蜡妆
黄桦的树皮和色黄
柳树枝长。

纹枫中的绿色条新，
苹果叶子的颜色纯，
杨树皮匀。

杨树苍白宛如月明，
轭和仓梁橡木制成，
千斤榆生。 

山毛榉银皮和腔藏
接骨木的茎，高而黄
柳树枝长。

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Translations of title(s):
"Counting-out rhyme" = "倒数韵"
"Twig of willow" = "柳树枝"

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a text in English by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "Counting-out rhyme"
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This text was added to the website: 2024-02-19
Line count: 12
Word count: 12