When I’m without you there’s much I want to tell you

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by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)

Translation © by Jacob Wilde

Без вас хочу сказать вам много

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Без вас хочу сказать вам много,
При вас я слушать вас хочу;
Но молча, вы глядите строго,
И я в смущении молчу.
Что ж делать?.. Речью неискусной
Занять ваш ум мне не дано...
Всё это было бы смешно,
Когда бы не было так грустно...

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Confirmed with Отечественные записки, 1840, том XII, № 10, отд. III, с. 229 • Стихотворение №394 (ПСС 1989). Note: this is the first version of the poem.

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Text Authorship:

by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), "А. О. Смирновой", written c1840 [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 Zara Aleksandrovna Levina (1906 - 1976), "Альбомное стихотворение" [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Buslov, A. S. Dobrovolsky, Boris Nikolayevich Golitsyn, Boleslav Viktorovich Grodzky, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Gurevich, Fedyr Mikolayovych Nadenenko, Aleksei Alekseyevich Petrov, Georgy Mikhailovich Rimsky-Korsakov, Ivan Vasilyevich Romanus, Oskar Davidovich Strok, Valerian Dmitrievich Zhelobinsky, Pavel Alekseyevich Zinovyev.

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When I’m without you there’s much I want...

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

When I’m without you there’s much I want to tell you,
In your presence I want to listen to you;
But you gaze austerely, in silence,
And I stay silent in embarrassment.
What should I do?.. With my unskilled speech
I’m unable to hold your attention… 
All this be would funny,
If it weren’t so sad…

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Translations of titles:
"Альбомное стихотворение" = "Album Poem"
"А. О. Смирновой" = "of A. O. Smirnova"

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), "А. О. Смирновой", written c1840
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