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Моё сердце -- родник, моя песня -- волна, Пропадая вдали -- разливается... Под грозой -- моя песня, как туча, темна, На заре -- в ней заря отражается. Если ж вдруг вспыхнут искры нежданной любви Или на сердце горе накопится -- В лоно песни моей льются слёзы мои, И волна уносить их торопится.
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Note on TransliterationsText Authorship:
- by Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (1819 - 1898), no title, first published 1856 [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 César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Моё сердце-родник", op. 76 (Шесть стихотворении Я. П. Полонского = Shest' stikhotvorenii Ja. P. Polonskogo (Six poems by Polonsky)) no. 4 (1908), published 1908 [ voice and piano ], Moscow: Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]
- by Andrey Vladimirovich Shcherbachyov (1869 - 1916), "Моё сердце - родник" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shefer (1866 - 1914), "Моё сердце - родник" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vladimir Timofeyevich Sokolov (1830 - 1890), "Моё сердце - родник" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856 - 1915), "Моё сердце -- родник", op. 34 (7 Стихотворений (7 Stikhotvorenij) = 7 Poems) no. 7 (1911-1912), published 1912 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Russischer Musikverlag [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Konstantin Petrovich Vil'boa (1817 - 1882), "Моё сердце - родник" [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Aleksey Berg) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Berthold Feiwel)
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Berthold Feiwel)
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 46
My heart is like a spring, my song like a wave, disappearing into the distance, overflowing, In the storm, my song is dark, like a cloud, At daybreak, it is reflected in the rising sun, But if suddenly the sparks of unexpected love blaze up, Or grief piles up in my heart-- Into the womb of my song my tears will pour, and the wave will hurriedly carry them away.
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- a text in Russian (Русский) by Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (1819 - 1898), no title, first published 1856
This text was added to the website: 2019-07-21
Line count: 8
Word count: 70