Écoute une fois ma triste confession

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by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Пойми хоть раз тоскливое признанье

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: FRE

Пойми хоть раз тоскливое признанье,
Хоть раз услышь души молящей стон!
Я пред тобой, прекрасное созданье,
Безвестных сил дыханьем окрылён.

Я образ твой ловлю перед разлукой,
Я полон им, [и млею, и]¹ дрожу, -
И, без тебя томясь предсмертной мукой,
Своей тоской, как счастьем, дорожу.

[Её пою]², во прах упасть готовый,
Ты предо мной стоишь, как божество --
И я блажен: я в каждой муке новой
Твоей красы предвижу торжество.

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• P. Tchaikovsky

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¹ Tchaikovsky: "немею и дрожу" ("nemeju i drozhu")
² Tchaikovsky: "Пою её" ("Poju jejo")

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Text Authorship:

by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), "Anruf an die geliebte Бетховена", written 1857 [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 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Пойми хоть раз", op. 16 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 3 (1872) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Sofya Aleksandrovna Zybina (d. 1897), "Пойми хоть раз тоскливое признанье", 1880 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Écoute une fois ma triste confession

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

Écoute une fois ma triste confession,
Au moins une fois écoute mon âme gémissante !
Je suis en face de toi, belle créature,
Inspiré par le souffle de forces obscures.

Je prends ton image avant notre séparation,
Je suis rempli d'elle, je frissonne et je tremble,
Et sans toi je languis tout près de la mort et je supporte
Ma douleur comme le bonheur, comme un trésor.

Je chante, prêt à tomber en poussière,
Je te vois debout en face de moi comme une divinité,
Et je suis bienheureux ; dans chaque nouvelle souffrance
Je vois un triomphe de ta beauté.

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), "Anruf an die geliebte Бетховена", written 1857
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This text was added to the website: 2016-08-27
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