The agitated heart is beating | The agitated heart is beating

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by Nikolai Alekseyevich Nekrasov (1821 - 1877)

Translation © by Aleksey Berg

Бьётся сердце беспокойное

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Бьётся сердце беспокойное,
Отуманились глаза.
Дуновенье страсти знойное
Налетело, как гроза.

Вспоминаю очи ясные
Дальней спутницы моей,
Повторяю стансы страстные,
Что сложил когда-то ей.

Я зову её, желанную,
«Улетим с тобою вновь
В ту страну обетованную, 
Где венчала нас любовь!

Розы там цветут душистые,
Там лазурней небеса,
Соловьи там голосистее,
Густолиственней леса...»

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Text Authorship:

by Nikolai Alekseyevich Nekrasov (1821 - 1877), no title, written 1874, appears in Три элегии (А. Н. Плещееву) , no. 2 [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 Karl Yulyevich Davidov (1838 - 1889), "Бьётся сердце беспокойное", op. 33 no. 2, published 1879 [ voice and piano ], St. Petersburg: Bessel [sung text not yet checked]
by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Taneyev (1850 - 1918), "Бьётся сердце беспокойное" [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856 - 1915), "Бьётся сердце беспокойное", op. 17 (10 Романсов) no. 9, published 1905 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: M.P. Belaieff [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Aleksey Berg) , "The agitated heart is beating", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 52

The agitated heart is beating

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

The agitated heart is beating,
My eyes grow misty,
A torrid wave of passion
Comes over me like a storm.

I remember the clear eyes
Of my distant wanderer
And repeat the passionate verses
That I once composed for her.

I call out to her, the beloved:
Let’s fly away together, again
Into that promised land
Where love married us.

There, fragrant roses blossom,
There, skies are bluer,
There, nightingales sing louder
And the leaves of the woods are thicker...

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Nikolai Alekseyevich Nekrasov (1821 - 1877), no title, written 1874, appears in Три элегии (А. Н. Плещееву) , no. 2
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This text was added to the website: 2019-07-21
Line count: 16
Word count: 80