Une brise passe et me caresse

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by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Ветер перелётный обласкал меня

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Ветер перелётный обласкал меня
И шепнул печально: «Ночь сильнее дня».
И закат померкнул. Тучи почернели.
Дрогнули, смутились пасмурные ели.

И над тёмным морем, где крутился вал,
Ветер перелётный зыбью пробежал.
Ночь царила в мире. А меж тем далёко,
За́ морем зажглося огненное око.

Новый распустился в небесах цветок,
Светом возрождённым заблистал Восток.
Ветер изменился, и пахнул мне в очи,
И шепнул с усмешкой: «День сильнее ночи».

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Confirmed with К. Д. Бальмонт, Полное собрание стихов. Том первый. Издание четвертое, М.: Изд. Скорпион, 1914.

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Text Authorship:

by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942), no title, appears in В безбрежности (V bezbrezhnosti), in 2. За пределы (Za predely), no. 26 [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 Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko (1896 - c1938), "Ветер перелётный", published 1952 [ voice and piano ], Kyiv [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Ветер перелётный", op. 34 (Четырнадцать романсов = Chetyrnadcat' romansov (Fourteen songs)) no. 4 (1912) [sung text checked 1 time]
by David Fyodorovich Saliman-Vladimirov (1903 - 1992), "Ветер перелётный", published 1976 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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ENG English (Jacob Wilde) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Une brise passe et me caresse

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

Une brise passe et me caresse,
Et murmure tristement : « La nuit est plus forte que le jour ».
Le soleil s'est couché, les nuages ont noirci,
Les sapins sombres ont tremblé dans toutes les directions.

Et sur la mer sombre où les vagues roulent,
Une brise est passée, courant sur les ondulations.
La nuit régnait sur le monde. Pourtant au loin,
Sur la mer, un œil de feu s'est allumé.

Une nouvelle fleur s'est épanouie dans le ciel,
L'est brillait d'une lumière qui renaît.
Le vent a changé et a caressé mes yeux,
Il a murmuré en souriant : « Le jour est plus fort que la nuit. »

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Translation of title "Ветер перелётный = "Une brise passe"

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942), no title, appears in В безбрежности (V bezbrezhnosti), in 2. За пределы (Za predely), no. 26
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This text was added to the website: 2014-09-17
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Word count: 109