The lilacs | At the red of the dawn

by Ekaterina Andreyena Beketova (1855 - 1892)

Translation Singable translation by Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch (1857 - 1940)

Сирень

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: DUT ENG ENG SPA

По утру, на заре,
По росистой траве,
Я пойду свежим утром дышать;
И в душистую тень,
Где теснится сирень,
Я пойду своё счастье искать...

В жизни счастье одно
Мне найти суждено, 
И то счастье в сирени живёт;
На зелёных ветвях,
На душистых кистях
Моё бедное счастье цветёт...

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Text Authorship:

by Ekaterina Andreyena Beketova (1855 - 1892), "Сирень", written 1878, first published 1895 [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 Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Сирень", op. 21 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve songs)) no. 5 (1902) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Andrey Vladimirovich Shcherbachyov (1869 - 1916), "Сирень" [sung text not yet checked]

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

DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Sonja Van Lier) , "Seringen", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Anton Bespalov) (Rianne Stam) , "Lilacs", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English [singable] (Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch) , "The lilacs"
ENG English (Jacob Wilde) , "Lilacs", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) [singable] (Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi) , "Les lilas"
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Lina Esbeer) , "Flieder"
SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado) , "Lilas", copyright © 2020, (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: 47

The lilacs

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

At the red of the dawn,
O'er the dewspangled lawn,
Where I meet the new day like a kiss,
In the sweet, fragrant shade
By the lilactrees made,
There I wander in search of my bliss...

For one joy, one alone,
Fate has giv'n as mine own,
And it dwells in yon fair lilac bow'r[;]
In its bright branches green,
In its thick, perfumed screen
There my one poor lost joy breaks in flow'r.

From the 1947 Rachmaninov edition.

Text Authorship:

Singable translation by Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch (1857 - 1940), "The lilacs" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Russian (Русский) by Ekaterina Andreyena Beketova (1855 - 1892), "Сирень", written 1878, first published 1895
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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Researcher for this page: Harry Joelson

This text was added to the website: 2011-02-08
Line count: 12
Word count: 74