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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Я думал, сердце позабыло

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: FRE

Я думал, сердце позабыло
Способность легкую страдать,
Я говорил: тому, что было,
Уж не бывать! уж не бывать!
Прошли [восторги]¹, и печали,
[И легковерные]² мечты...
Но вот опять затрепетали
Пред мощной властью красоты.

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¹ Razorenov: "любовные" ("ljubovnyje")
² Razorenov: "смирились легкие" ("smirilis' legkije")

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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837) [author's text checked 1 time 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 Evgenii Fedorovich Alenev (1864 - 1902), "Я думал, сердце позабыло", op. 16 no. 4 [ voice and piano ], from 8 Стихотворений А. С. Пушкина, с сопровождением фортепиано (8 Stikhotvorenij A. S. Pushkina, s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano), no. 4, Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Я думал, сердце позабыло", op. 76 no. 2 (1965), from Эхо Поэта = `Ekho Po`eta, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Olga Andreyevna Donaurova (1851 - 1918), "Я думал, сердце позабыло" [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergey Alekseyevich Razoryonov (1909 - 1996), "Я думал, сердце позабыло" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Dmitry Konstantinovich Sartinsky-Bey , "Я думал сердце позабыло" [sung text not yet checked]

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FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "J'ai pensé que mon cœur avait oublié", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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J'ai pensé que mon cœur avait oublié

Language: French (Français) after the Russian (Русский)

J'ai pensé que mon cœur avait oublié
Sa capacité à souffrir facilement,
J'ai dit : ce qui a été,
Que cela n'arrive plus ! Que cela n'arrive plus !
Ils étaient partis, l'ivresse, le chagrin,
Les rêveries crédules...
Mais voici encore le frisson
Devant le puissant pouvoir de sa beauté.

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