Что ты клонишь над водами

Что ты клонишь над водами,
Ива, макушку свою?
И дрожащими листами,
Словно жадными устами,
Ловишь беглую струю?

Хоть томится, хоть трепещет
Каждый лист твой над струей...
Но струя бежит и плещет,
И, на солнце нежась, блещет,
И смеётся над тобой...

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• by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803 - 1873), first published 1836 [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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

• by Georgi Lvovitch Catoire (1861 - 1926), "Что ты клонишь над водами" [
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• by Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (1847 - ?), "Что ты клонишь над водами" [
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• by Matveyev , "Что ты клонишь над водами" [
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• by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Что ты клонишь над водами", op. 24 (Vosem' stikhotvorenij) no. 2. [voice and piano] [
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• by Vladimir Pol , "Что ты клонишь над водами" [
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• by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Ива", 1863-65. [voice and piano], also set in German (Deutsch) [
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892) , title 1: "Die Weide" FRE by Pauline Viardot-García.
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• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Le saule", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Die Weide

Warum tief zum Wasser senkst du,
Weidenbaum, dein schwankes Haupt? 
Deine Zweige zitternd hängst du,
In die Flut, die flüchtige, drängst du
Gierig, wie man Küsse raubt.

Wie auch zitternd wie auch bangend 
Jedes Blatt sich drängt zur Flut: 
In der Sonne Schimmer prangend,
Springt sie fort, vor dir nicht bangend,
Lacht dich aus voll Übermuth.

Confirmed with Friedrich Bodenstedt's Gesammelte Schriften. Gesammt-Ausgabe in zwölf Bänden. Siebenter Band: Russische Dichter. Deutsch von Friedrich Bodenstedt. III. Michaïl Lermontoff, Kolzoff und Andere. Vierter Band, Berlin, Verlag der Königlichen Geheimen Ober-Hofbuchdruckeerei (R. v. Decker), 1866, p. 168.

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Authorship

• Singable translation by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892), "Die Weide" [ author's text checked 1 time]

• a text in Russian (Русский) by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803 - 1873), first published 1836 FRE
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Georgi Lvovitch Catoire, Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kuznetsov, Matveyev, Nikolai Karlovich Medtner, Vladimir Pol, Pauline Viardot-García. Go to the text.

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

• by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Die Weide", 1863-65. [voice and piano], also set in Russian (Русский) [
   text not verified 
  ]

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