My mind was oppressed by anguish

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by Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (1819 - 1898)

Translation © by Aleksey Berg

Мой ум подавлен был тоской

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Мой ум подавлен был тоской,
Мои глаза без слёз горели...
Над озером сплетались ели,
Чернел камыш, -- сквозили щели
Из мрака к свету над водой.
И много, много звёзд мерцало...
Но в сердце мне ночная мгла
Холодной дрожью проникала,
Мне виделось так мало, мало
Лучей любви над бездной зла!

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Text Authorship:

by Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (1819 - 1898), no title, first published 1874 [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 Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856 - 1915), "Мой ум подавлен был тоской", op. 32 (4 Стихотворения (4 Stikhotvorenija) = Vier Gedichte von J. Polonsky) no. 3 (1911), published 1911 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Russischer Musikverlag [sung text checked 1 time]

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

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My mind was oppressed by anguish

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

My mind was oppressed by anguish,
My eyes burned without tears,
Pine trees intertwined over the lake,
The reeds were black, -- slits could be discerned
From darkness to light over water.

And many, many stars were glimmering,
And into my heart the night’s haze,
In a cold shiver, was seeping in.
I could see so few, so few,
Beams of love over the abyss of evil.

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (1819 - 1898), no title, first published 1874
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This text was added to the website: 2019-07-21
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Word count: 66