Amoureux séparés | Dans le royaume de Yen

by Herbert Allen Giles (1845 - 1935)

Translation by Henri Pierre Roché (1879 - 1959)

Lovers parted

Language: English after the Chinese (中文)

In the Kingdom of Yen 
  a young gallant resides, 
In the Kingdom of Chao 
  a fair damsel abides; 
No long leagues of wearisome 
  road intervene, 
But a chain of steep mountains 
  is set in between. 
Ye clouds, on your broad bosoms 
  bear me afar, 
The winds for my horses 
  made fast to my car! 

Ah, jade lies deep hid 
  in the bowels of earth ; 
To the fair epidendrum 
  the prairie gives birth; 
And the clouds in the sky, 
  they come not at call; 
And the fickle breeze rises, 
  alas, but to fall. 
And so I am left 
  with my thoughts to repine, 
And think of that loved one 
  who ne'er can be mine.

Confirmed with Chinese poetry in English verse, translated by Herbert Allen Giles, London, B. Quaritch, 1898, pages 28-29.

Text Authorship:

by Herbert Allen Giles (1845 - 1935), "Lovers parted ", appears in Chinese Poetry in English Verse, London, B. Quaritch, first published 1898 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Fu Mi (105l - 1107) [text unavailable]
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Also set in French (Français), a translation by Henri Pierre Roché (1879 - 1959) ; composed by Albert Roussel.
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Amoureux séparés

Language: French (Français) after the English

Our translations: JPN

Dans le royaume de Yen
  un jeune galant réside,
Dans le royaume de Chao
  une belle demoiselle habite.
A vrai dire, ces royaumes
  ne sont pas très distants,
Mais une chaîne de monts à pic
  les sépare bel et bien.
"Vous, nuages, sur vos fortes poitrines,
  emportez-moi
Vents, soyez mes chevaux
  et galopez!"

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Les nuages du ciel
  n'écoutent pas la voix,
La brise changeante
  s'élève et retombe,
Je reste dans l'amertume
  de mes pensées
Songeant à la bien-aimée
  que je n'atteindrai pas.

Text Authorship:

by Henri Pierre Roché (1879 - 1959) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in English by Herbert Allen Giles (1845 - 1935), "Lovers parted ", appears in Chinese Poetry in English Verse, London, B. Quaritch, first published 1898
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Based on:

a text in Chinese (中文) by Fu Mi (105l - 1107) [text unavailable]
- Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Albert Roussel (1869 - 1937), "Amoureux séparés", op. 12 no. 2 (1907-8), published 1921 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux poèmes chinois, no. 2, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle [sung text checked 1 time]

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Researcher for this page: Geoffrey Wieting

This text was added to the website: 2004-01-20
Line count: 24
Word count: 82