The Regrets of Bôkhära (Anonymous, set by N. Page) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 The gale whose breath such joy imparts
 Comes from the gentle stream
 Where they reside, to whom our hearts
 Return in mem'ry's dream:
 The precious odor that its wings convey,
 Is their regret for us so far away!
 The sands are rough along that shore
 Where glides our native Amû's stream;
 But when we tread its banks once more,
 Like velvet those rude sands will seem.
 Oh, pitying Oxus! let thy waves divide,
 And yield us passage down thy op'ning tide!
 All hail! Bôkhära, land of flowers!
 Our prince moves proudly on; 
 He goes to glad thy sunny bowers,
 He asks thy smile alone.
 The waving cypress seeks his native groves,
 The rising moon the firmament it loves.

Authorship

Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

Based on

text

Roduki

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

Nathaniel Clifford Page (1866-1956)

Date added to the website: 2003-10-19.

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