Was it not recently that with magic sounds | Was it not recently that with magic sounds

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by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Давно ль под волшебные звуки

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Давно ль под волшебные звуки
Носились по зале мы с ней?
Теплы были нежные руки,
[Теплы]¹ были звёзды очей.

Вчера пели песнь погребенья,
Без крыши гробница была;
Закрывши глаза, без движенья,
Она под парчою спала.

Я спал... над постелью моею
Стояла луна мертвецом.
Под чудные звуки мы с нею
Носились по зале вдвоём.

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• A. Arensky • N. Medtner

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¹ Arensky, Medtner: "Светлы"

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Text Authorship:

by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), "Давно ль под волшебные звуки" [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 Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861 - 1906), "Давно ль под волшебные звуки", op. 49 (Пять романсов (Pjat' romansov) = Five romances) no. 5 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Валсь", op. 37 (Пять стихотворений (Pjat' stikhotvorenij)) no. 4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Kristian Genrikh Paufler , "Давно ль под волшебные звуки" [sung text not yet checked]
by Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov (1801 - 1848), "Давно ль под волшебные звуки" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov (1872 - 1964), "Давно ль", op. 34 no. 5, published 1922 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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ENG English [singable] (Maria Louise Baum)

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 54

Was it not recently that with magic sounds

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

 Was it not recently that with magic sounds
 we danced about the hall, she and I?
 Her tender arms were warm,
 her star-like eyes were bright.
 
 Yesterday they sang dirges,
 the tomb was open;
 her eyes closed, motionless,
 she slept beneath a brocade.
 
 I slept; above my bed
 the moon hung like the dead...
 yet to wondrous sounds, she and I
 were flying about the hall, the two of us...

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), "Давно ль под волшебные звуки"
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 71