4 Романса с сопровождением фортепиано (4 Romansa s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano) , opus 28

by Akhilles Nikolayevich Alferaki (1846 - 1919)

1. Порой среди забот  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: Russian (Русский) 
Порой, среди забот и жизненного шума,
Внезапно набежит мучительная дума
И гонит образ твой из горестной души.
Но только лишь один останусь я в тиши
И суетного дня минует гул тревожный,
Смиряется во мне волненье жизни ложной,
Душа, как озеро, прозрачна и сквозна,
И взор я погрузить в неё могу до дна;
Спокойной мыслию, ничем не возмутимой,
Твой отражаю лик желанный и любимый
И ясно вижу глубь, где, как блестящий клад,
Любви моей к тебе сокровища лежат.

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2. В дымке‑невидимке  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: Russian (Русский) 
В дымке-невидимке
Выплыл месяц вешний.
Цвет садовый дышет
[Яблонью]1, черешней.
Так и льнёт, целуя 
Тайно и нескромно.
И тебе не [грустно]2?
И тебе не томно?

[Истерзался песней]3
Соловей без розы.
Плачет старый камень, 
В пруд роняя слёзы.
Уронила косы
Голова невольно.
И тебе не томно?
И тебе не больно?

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  • ENG English (Aleksey Berg) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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1 Taneyev: "Яблоней" ("Jablonej")
2 Taneyev: "больно" ("bol'no")
3 Taneyev: "Истомился в песнях " ("Istomilsja v pesnjakh")

3. Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: German (Deutsch) 
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
Weiß, was ich leide!
Allein und abgetrennt
Von aller Freude
[Seh]1 ich an's Firmament
Nach [jener]2 Seite.
[Ach, der]3 mich liebt [und kennt]4,
Ist in der Weite.
Es [schwindelt]5 mir, es brennt
Mein Eingeweide.
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
Weiß, was ich leide!

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  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jan Evangelista Nečas) , "Táž"
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Slechts wie de hunk'ring kent", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Lawrence Snyder) , no title, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English [singable] (David Paley) , "Only my yearning shows", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) [singable] (Christakis Poumbouris) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Solo chi conosce la nostalgia", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Confirmed with Goethe's Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand. Zweyter Band. Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. 1827, page 118; and with Goethe's Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand. Neunzehnter Band. Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. 1828, page 67.

First published in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. Ein Roman. Herausgegeben von Goethe. Zweyter Band. Berlin. Bei Johann Friedrich Unger. 1795, pages 265-266. The poem appears in Book 4, Chapter 11 of Goethe's novel.

1 Schubert (D. 310, first version): "Blick"
2 Lang: "jeder"
3 Goethe (only in the novel, not in editions of the poems): "Ach! der"; Zelter: "Ach, die"
4 omitted by Zeisl.
5 Goethe (only in editions of the novel later than 1815, not in editions of the poems): "schwindet"

3. Лишь кто разлуку снал

Language: Russian (Русский) 
Лишь кто разлуку снал
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4. Песнь Саула

Language: Russian (Русский) 
Войны, вожди!
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4. Song of Saul before his last battle  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Warriors and chiefs! should the shaft or the sword 
Pierce me in leading the host of the Lord, 
Heed not the corse, though a king's, in your path: 
Bury your steel in the bosoms of Gath! 

Thou who art bearing my buckler and bow, 
Should the soldiers of Saul look away from the foe, 
Stretch me that moment in blood at thy feet! 
Mine be the doom which they dared not to meet. 

Farewell to others, but never we part, 
Heir to my royalty, son of my heart! 
Bright is the diadem, boundless the sway, 
Or kingly the death, which awaits us to-day!

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