南湖秋水夜無烟， 耐可乘流直上天。 且就洞庭賒月色， 將船買酒白雲邊。
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Confirmed with 全唐詩/卷179 (Complete Tang Poems, volume 179), available at Wikisource [external site].
Text Authorship:
- by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), no title, appears in 陪族叔刑部侍郎晔及中书贾舍人至游洞庭五首 (Five Poems on a Trip to Dongting Lake with My Cousin, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Ye, and the Secretary of the Central Secretariat, Jia Sheren), no. 2 [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):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971) , " On the Tung-ting Lake - II", appears in Li Po, the Chinese poet, done into English verse ; composed by Jacob Avshalomov.
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Word count: 4
The autumn night is vaporless on the lake. The swelling tide could bear us on to the sky Come, let us take the moonlight for our guide, We'll sail away and drink where the white clouds are!
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Shigeyoshi Obata, The Works of Li-Po, the Chinese poet, London : Dent, 1923, p.171
Text Authorship:
- by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971), " On the Tung-ting Lake - II", appears in Li Po, the Chinese poet, done into English verse [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), no title, appears in 陪族叔刑部侍郎晔及中书贾舍人至游洞庭五首 (Five Poems on a Trip to Dongting Lake with My Cousin, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Ye, and the Secretary of the Central Secretariat, Jia Sheren), no. 2
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jacob Avshalomov (1919 - 2013), "On the T'ung T'ing Lake" [ voice and piano ], from From the Chinese, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2025-04-27
Line count: 4
Word count: 37