What is your favorite poem? Leslie(she/her) ( @leslieriver@fapsi.be ) Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago message-square21fedilinkarrow-up122
arrow-up122message-squareWhat is your favorite poem? Leslie(she/her) ( @leslieriver@fapsi.be ) Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago message-square21fedilink
minus-square B0rodin ( @B0rodin@lemmygrad.ml ) linkfedilink5•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.