So‑fei gathering flowers

In a dress of gauzy fabric
  Of the "Lien" leaf's emerald hue
So-fei glides among the lilies
  Sprinkled with the morning dew.

Rose-hued are the lotus blossoms,
  Rose-hued, too, the maiden's cheeks;
Is it So-fei's form I follow,
  Or the flowers she seeks?

Now I hear a song arising
  From the lotus bowers,
Which distinguishes the maiden
  From her sister flowers.

by Charles Budd

a text in Chinese by Wang-Chang-Ling (698-765) [text unavailable]

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

by Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) , "So-fei gathering flowers", op. 10 no. 1 (1917), published 1917 [voice and piano], from Five Poems of Ancient China and Japan / Five Poems of the Ancient Far East, no. 1.

Date added to the website: 2009-08-23.

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