LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,138)
  • Text Authors (19,558)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Osip Emil'evich Mandelstam (1891 - 1938)

Я скажу тебе с последней
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Я скажу тебе с последней
Прямотой:
Все лишь бредни – шерри-бренди, –
Ангел мой.

Там, где эллину сияла
Красота,
Мне из черных дыр зияла
Срамота.

Греки сбондили Елену
По волнам,
Ну, а мне – соленой пеной
По губам.

По губам меня помажет
Пустота,
Строгий кукиш мне покажет
Нищета.

Ой ли, так ли, дуй ли, вей ли –
Все равно;
Ангел Мэри, пей коктейли,
Дуй вино.

Я скажу тебе с последней
Прямотой:
Все лишь бредни – шерри-бренди, –
Ангел мой.

Show a transliteration: Default | DIN | GOST

Note on Transliterations

Text Authorship:

  • by Osip Emil'evich Mandelstam (1891 - 1938) [author's text not yet checked 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 Valentin Vasilovich Silvestrov (b. 1937), "Я скажу тебе с последней", 1974-1977 [ baritone and piano ], from Тихие песни, no. 7, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2022-09-25
Line count: 24
Word count: 79

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris