My nightingale, nightingale

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by Anton Antonovich Delvig (1798 - 1831)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Соловей мой, соловей

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Соловей мой, соловей,
Голосистый соловей!
Ты куда, куда летишь,
Где всю ночку пропоешь?¹
Кто-то бедная, как я,
Ночь прослушает тебя,
Не смыкаючи очей,
Утопаючи в слезах?¹
Ты лети, мой соловей,
Хоть за тридевять земель,
Хоть за синие моря,
На чужие берега;
Побывай во всех странах,
В деревнях и в городах:
Не найти тебе нигде
Горемышнее меня.¹
У меня ли у младой
Дорог жемчуг на груди,
У меня ли у младой
Жар-колечко на руке,
У меня ли у младой
В сердце миленький дружок.
В день осенний на груди
Крупный жемчуг потускнел,
В зимню ночку на руке
Распаялося кольцо,
А как нынешней весной
Разлюбил меня милой.

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Соловей мой, соловей,
Голосистый соловей!

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Text Authorship:

by Anton Antonovich Delvig (1798 - 1831), "Русская песня", first published 1825 [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 Aleksandrovich Aliabev (1787 - 1851), "Соловей", lines 1-8,13-16 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2004

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 28
Word count: 107

My nightingale, nightingale

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

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My nightingale, nightingale
Sweet-voiced nightingale!
To where are you flying?
Where will you sing all night?
Will some other unfortunate maiden like me
Listen to you tonight,
Unable to close her eyes,
Drowning in tears?
You fly, my nightingale,
over thirty-nine lands
over blue seas
to foreign shores;
Travel through every country,
Through villages, through towns:
You will not find anywhere
Someone more unhappy than I!
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a text in Russian (Русский) by Anton Antonovich Delvig (1798 - 1831), "Русская песня", first published 1825
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This text was added to the website: 2004-06-26
Line count: 28
Word count: 66