Leslie(she/her) to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 2 years agoWhat is your favorite poem?message-square23fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down12
arrow-up119arrow-down1message-squareWhat is your favorite poem?Leslie(she/her) to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 2 years agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-square@B0rodinlink5•edit-22 years ago The sky will always shine blue and the earth Will endure long and flourish in Spring. But you, mankind, how long will you live? From The Drinking Song of the Sorrows of the Earth. It is a piece of Chinese poetry by Li T’ai-po and the German translation was used as the libretto for the first movement of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.
From The Drinking Song of the Sorrows of the Earth.
It is a piece of Chinese poetry by Li T’ai-po and the German translation was used as the libretto for the first movement of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.