Everyone is asleep: let us go to the shady garden

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by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892)

Translation © by Aleksey Berg

Люди спят; мой друг, пойдём в тениствый...

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Люди спят; мой друг, пойдём в тениствый сад.
Люди спят, одни лишь звёзды к нам глядят,
Да и те не видят нас среди ветвей,
И не слышат, слышит только соловей...

Да и тот не слышит: песнь его громка.
[Разве слышат]¹ только сердце да рука.
Слышит сердце, сколько радостей земли,
Сколько счастия сюда мы принесли.

Да рука, услыша, сердцу говорит,
Что [чужая]² в ней пылает и дрожит,
Что и ей от этой дрожи горячо,
Что к [плечу]³ невольно клонится плечо...

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• A. Dyubyuk

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¹ Dyubyuk: "Он не слышит. Слышит"
² Dyubyuk: "другая"
³ Dyubyuk: "груди"

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Text Authorship:

by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), no title, first published 1853 [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 Aleksandr Ivanovich Dyubyuk (1812 - 1897), "Ночная серенада" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "Люди спят" [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856 - 1915), "Люди спят", op. 17 (10 Романсов) no. 10, published 1905 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: M.P. Belaieff [sung text checked 1 time]
by Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov (1872 - 1964), "Люди спят", subtitle: "Ноттурно", op. 21 no. 3, published [1907] [ vocal duet ], Leipzig, Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]

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ENG English (Aleksey Berg) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Everyone is asleep: let us go to the...

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

Everyone is asleep: let us go to the shady garden,
Everyone is asleep, only the stars are looking at us,
But even they can’t see us through the branches,
Nor can they hear us--only the nightingale can...

But he can’t hear us either, his song is too loud,
Only the hand and the heart can hear:
The heart hears, how much joy and happiness
We have brought to this place;

And the hand, once it hears, tells the heart,
That another is burning and trembling in it,
And that this hand is warm from that trembling,
And that a shoulder involuntarily is leaning towards another shoulder...

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), no title, first published 1853
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