Давно ль под волшебные звуки

Давно ль под волшебные звуки
Носились по зале мы с ней?...
Теплы были нежные руки,
Светлы 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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• by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892) [ 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 Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861 - 1906), "Давно ль под волшебные звуки", op. 49 (Пять романсов (Pjat' romansov) = Five romances) no. 5. [voice and piano] [
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• by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Валсь", op. 37 (Pjat' stikhotvorenij) no. 4. [voice and piano] [
   text verified 1 time
  ]

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• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "Was it not recently that with magic sounds", copyright ©

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Was it not recently that with magic sounds

 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)
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Nikolai Karlovich Medtner. Go to the text.

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.