雙燕復雙燕， 雙飛令人羨。 玉樓珠閣不獨棲， 金窗繡戶長相見。 柏梁失火去， 因入吳王宮。 吳宮又焚蕩， 雛盡巢亦空。 憔悴一身在， 孀雌憶故雄。 雙飛難再得， 傷我寸心中。
Confirmed with Peng Dingqiu 彭定求 (ed.), Quan Tang shi 全唐詩 (Complete Tang Poems), Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1985. 163.1690.
Text Authorship:
- by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "雙燕離" [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 French (Français), a translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955) , "La fidélité", appears in La flûte de jade ; composed by Marie Marjori Hajary.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Shigeyoshi Obata) , "A Pair of Swallows"
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Deux hirondelles, et deux hirondelles... Toujours, les hirondelles volent par couple. Qu'elles aperçoivent une tour de jade ou un pavillon de laque, elles ne s'y perchent jamais l'une sans l'autre. Qu'elles aperçoivent une balustrade de marbre ou une fenêtre dorée, elles ne se séparent point. Il y avait deux hirondelles... Quand prit feu la poutre de cèdre qui abritait leur nid, elles se réfugièrent dans le palais du roi d'Ou, mais le palais du roi d'Ou brûla, et le mâle et les petits brûlèrent aussi. A son retour, la femelle contempla les ruines du palais. Cette histoire m'attriste infiniment.
Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade : poésies chinoises, Paris: H. Piazza, 1926, pages 13-14.
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La fidélité", appears in La flûte de jade [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), "雙燕離"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Marie Marjori Hajary (1921 - 2017), "La Fidélité", 1950 [ voice, 2 flutes, viola and violoncello ], from Flûte de jade, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "Faithfulness", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2026-04-25
Line count: 13
Word count: 99