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The Poet's Echo

Song Cycle by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)

View original-language texts alone: Эхо Поэта = `Ekho Po`eta

1. Эхо
 (Sung text)
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Ревёт ли зверь в лесу глухом,
Трубит ли рог, гремит ли гром,
Поёт ли дева за холмом -
  На всякий звук
Свой отклик в воздухе пустом
  Родишь ты вдруг.

Ты внемлешь грохоту громов,
И гласу бури и валов,
И крику сельских пастухов -
  И шлешь ответ;
Тебе ж нет отзыва... Таков
  И ты, поэт!

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  • by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)

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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)
1.
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2. Я думал, сердце позабыло
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Language: Russian (Русский) 
Я думал, сердце позабыло
Способность легкую страдать,
Я говорил: тому, что было,
Уж не бывать! уж не бывать!
Прошли восторги, и печали,
И легковерные мечты...
Но вот опять затрепетали
Пред мощной властью красоты.

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2.
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3. Ангел
 (Sung text)
Language: Russian (Русский) 
В дверях Эдема ангел нежный
Главой поникшею сиял,
А демон мрачный и мятежный
Над адской бездною летал.

Дух отрицанья, дух сомненья
На духа чистого взирал
И жар невольный умиленья
Впервые смутно познавал.

«Прости,» он рёк, «тебя я видел,
И ты недаром мне сиял:
Не всё я в небе ненавидел,
Не всё я в мире презирал.»

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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)
3. The angel
Language: English 
In the doorway of Eden a gentle angel,
with head adroop, was shining.
but a dark and rebellious demon
was flying over the abyss of hell.

The spirit of denial, the spirit of doubt
gazed at the spirit pure,
and an involuntary heat of tenderness
he dimly experienced for the first time.

"Pardon," he said, "You I saw,
And not for nothing were you shining for me:
not everything in [heaven]1 have I hated.
not everything in the world have I despised."

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  • Translation from Russian (Русский) to English copyright © 2015 by Lyle Neff, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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1 Cui: "the world"


This text was added to the website: 2015-08-24
Line count: 12
Word count: 83

Translation © by Lyle Neff
4. Соловей и роза
 (Sung text)
Language: Russian (Русский) 
В безмолвии садов, весной, во мгле ночей,
Поёт над розою восточный соловей.
Но роза милая не чувствует, не внемлет,
И под влюбленный гимн колеблется и дремлет.
Не так ли ты поёшь для хладной красоты?
Опомнись, о поэт, к чему стремишься ты?
Она не слушает, не чувствует поэта;
Глядишь, она цветет; взываешь -- нет ответа.

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4. The nightingale and the rose
Language: English 
In the silence of the gardens, in the spring, in the darkness of the nights
An eastern nightingale sings over a rose.
But the dear rose does not feel, pays no heed,
And it swings and slumbers to the amorous hymn.
Are you not singing for a cold beauty?
Come to your senses, o poet, to what are you aspiring?
She does not listen, does not feel the poet;
You see, she blooms; you beseech -- there is no answer.

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  • Translation from Russian (Русский) to English copyright © 2014 by Lyle Neff, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Line count: 8
Word count: 79

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5. Эпиграмма
 (Sung text)
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Полу-милорд, полу-купец,
Полу-мудрец, полу-невежда,
Полу-подлец, но есть надежда,
Что будет полным наконец.

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  • by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), no title, written 1824

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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)
5.
[Translation not yet available]
6. Стихи, сочинённые ночью во время бессонницы
 (Sung text)
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Мне не спится, нет огня;
Всюду мрак и сон докучный.
Ход часов лишь однозвучный
Раздаётся близ меня.
Парки бабье лепетанье,
Спящей ночи трепетанье,
Жизни мышья беготня...
Что тревожишь ты меня?
Что ты значишь, скучный шопот?
Укоризна, или ропот
Мной утраченного дня?
От меня чего ты хочешь?
Ты зовёшь или пророчишь?
Я понять тебя хочу,
Смысла я в тебе ищу...

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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)
6.
[Translation not yet available]
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