Parting at a Wine-shop in Nanjing | Parting at a wine-shop | A wind, bringing willow-cotton, sweetens the shop

by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)

Translation by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968)

金陵酒肆留別

Language: Chinese (中文)

風吹柳花滿店香， 
吳姬壓酒喚客嘗；
金陵子弟來相送， 
欲行不行各盡觴。
請君試問東流水， 
別意與之誰短長？

Text Authorship:

by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "金陵酒肆留別" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in English, a translation by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968) , "Parting at a Wine-shop in Nanjing", appears in The Jade Mountain, first published 1929 ; composed by John Beckwith.

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Word count: 6

A wind, bringing willow‑cotton, sweetens...

Language: English after the Chinese (中文)

A wind, bringing willow-cotton, sweetens the shop,
And a girl from Wu, pouring wine, urges me to share it
With my comrades of the city who are here to see me off;
And as each of them drains his cup, I say to him in parting,
Oh, go and ask this river running to the east
If it can travel farther than a friend's love!

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Text Authorship:

by Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968), "Parting at a Wine-shop in Nanjing", 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 Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "金陵酒肆留別"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by John Beckwith (1927 - 2022), "Parting at a wine-shop", 1947 [ high voice and piano ], from Five Lyrics of the T'ang Dynasty, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-01-22
Line count: 6
Word count: 65