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В [кипенье]1 нежности сердечной ты жизнью друга назвала: привет бесценный, если б вечно живая молодость цвела. К могиле [все]2 летит стрелою, и ты, меня лаская вновь, зови не жизнью, а душою, бессмертной, как моя любовь.
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View text without footnotes1 Rimsky-Korsakov, Gliere: "poryve"
2 Gliere: "zhizn'"
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- a text in English by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "From the Portugese", appears in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a Romaunt: and other Poems, in Poems, first published 1814 [an adaptation]
Based on:
- a text in Portuguese (Português) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Akhilles Nikolayevich Alferaki (1846 - 1919), "В порыве нежности сердечной", op. 16 (6 Романсов с сопровождением фортепиано (6 Romansov s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 2 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
- by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "В порыве нежности", op. 27 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 4 (1884), published 1884 [ voice and piano ], St. Petersburg: V. Bessel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875 - 1956), "В порыве нежности сердечной", op. 6 (Три романса (Tri romansa) = Three Romances) no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "В порыве нежности сердечной", op. 26 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 1 (1882) [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-11
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Word count: 37
In an outburst of your heart's passion You called your friend "My life!": A precious accolade, if only Life and youth lasted forever. Life flies towards death like an arrow, So, caressing me again, Call me not "life", but "soul", Immortal, like my love!
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Based on:
- a text in Russian (Русский) by Ivan Ivanovich Kozlov (1779 - 1840)
Based on:
- a text in English by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "From the Portugese", appears in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a Romaunt: and other Poems, in Poems, first published 1814 [an adaptation]
Based on:
- a text in Portuguese (Português) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
This text was added to the website: 2017-01-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 44