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О, долго буду я, в молчаньи ночи тайной, Коварный лепет твой, улыбку, взор случайный, Перстам послушную [волос]1 густую прядь, Из мыслей изгонять, и снова призывать; Дыша порывисто, один, никем не зримый, Досады и стыда румянами палимый, Искать хотя одной загадочной черты В словах, которые произносила ты; Шептать и поправлять былые выраженья Речей моих с тобой, исполненных смущенья, И в опьянении, наперекор уму, Заветным именем будить ночную [мглу]2.
S. Rachmaninov sets lines 1-4, 9-12
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View text without footnotes1 Rachmaninov: "волос, волос твоих" ("volos, volos tvojikh")
2 Rachmaninov: "тьму" ("t'mu")
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Note on TransliterationsText Authorship:
- by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), no title, first published 1844 [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 Boris Aleksandrovich Fitingof-Shel (1829 - 1901), "О, долго буду я", 1878 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georgy Eduardovich Konyus (1862 - 1933), "В молчаньи ночи тайной", op. 9 no. 2 [ voice and piano ], from 6 Романсов на стихотворения А. Фета, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev (1878 - 1942), "О, долго буду я", 1905 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "В молчаньи ночи тайной", op. 4 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six songs) ) no. 3, lines 1-4,9-12 [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 70
Oh, por mucho tiempo, en el silencio de la noche misteriosa, tu fatal susurro, tu sonrisa, tu mirada, el mechón rubio de tu pelo, siempre dócil a mis dedos, apartaré de mis pensamientos, para entonces evocarlos de nuevo; [... ... ... ...] Murmurar y reconsiderar las frases de antaño las palabras que te dije, palabras llenas de rencor, y, borracho de amor, contrario a la razón, despertaré la niebla de la noche diciendo tu nombre.
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- a text in Russian (Русский) by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), no title, first published 1844
This text was added to the website: 2008-09-03
Line count: 12
Word count: 71