В тёмной [чаще]1 замолк соловей,
прокатилась [звезда в синеве]2;
месяц смотрит сквозь [сетку]3 ветвей,
зажигает росу на траве.

Дремлют розы. Прохлада плывет.
Кто-то свистнул... Вет замер и свист
Ухо слышит, едва, упадет 
Насекомым подточенный лист.

Как при месяце кроток и тих
у тебя милый очерк лица!
Эту ночь, полный грез золотых
я б продлил без конца, без конца!

N. Rimsky-Korsakov sets stanzas 1, 3

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¹ Gretchaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov: "роще" ("roshche")
² Rimsky-Korsakov: "по небу звезда" ("po nebu zvezda")
³ Gretchaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov: "чашу" ("chashu")

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Text Authorship:

• by Ivan Savvich Nikitin (1824 - 1861), no title [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 Sergey Grigoryevich Grasgof (b. 1881), "В тёмной роще замолк соловей" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "В тёмной роще замолк соловей", op. 20 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 2, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Boleslav Viktorovich Grodzky (1865 - 1923), "В тёмной чаще", op. 13 no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mikhail Mikhailovich Ivanov (1849 - 1927), "В тёмной роще замолк соловей" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gennady Osipovich Korganov (1858 - 1890), "В тёмной чаще замолк соловей", op. 19 (Четыре романса) no. 4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "В тёмной роще замолк соловей", op. 4 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 3 (1866), stanzas 1,3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "В тёмной чаще замолк соловей", op. 1 (Zwölf Romanzen für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung = 12 Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 4, published 1887 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Vladimir Timofeyevich Sokolov (1830 - 1890), "В тёмной роще замолк соловей" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov (1872 - 1964), "Notturno", op. 1 (4 романса для высокаго голоса с сопровождением фортепиано (4 romansa dlja vysokago golosa s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by (Victor) Felix von Dwelshauvers-Déry (1869 - 1915) and by A. de Gourghenbekoff ; composed by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov.
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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 between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 61

In the dark grove, the nightingale is silent, 
A star rolled across the sky;
A crescent moon is peering through the branches
And sparkles the dew upon the grass.

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In the moonlight, how angelic and soft
The silhouette of your dear face!
Full of golden dreams, I wish this night 
To last forever, forever!