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]1 ненавидел,
Не всё я в мире презирал.»
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1 Cui: "мире" (mire)
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- by Evgenii Fedorovich Alenev (1864 - 1902), "Ангел", op. 15 no. 6 [ voice and piano ], from 8 Стихотворений А. С. Пушкина, с сопровождением фортепиано (8 Stikhotvorenij A. S. Pushkina, s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano), no. 6, Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Ангел", op. 76 no. 3 (1965), from Эхо Поэта = `Ekho Po`eta, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Ангел", op. 57 (Двадцать пять стихотворении Пушкина = Dvadcat' pjat' stikhotvorenii Pushkina (25 Poems of Pushkin)) no. 20 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Ангел", op. 36 (Шесть стихотворений А. Пушкина (Shest' stikhotvorenij A. Pushkina)) no. 1 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Ангел", op. 78 (Zwölf Lieder aus dem Russischen von W. Osterwald (Twelve Russian Songs)) no. 3 (c1867), published 1868 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Senff, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by (Karl) Wilhelm Osterwald (1820 - 1887) ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Lyle Neff) , "The angel", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Ange", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 12
Word count: 55
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."