На нивы жёлтые нисходит тишина,
в остывшем воздухе от меркнущих селений,
дрожа, несется звон... Душа моя полна
разлукою с тобой и горьких сожалений.

И каждый мой упрек я вспоминаю вновь,
и каждое твержу приветливое слово,
что мог бы я сказать тебе, моя любовь,
[но что внутри себя]1 я схоронил сурово.

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¹ Tchaikovsky: "но что на дне души" ("no chto na dne dushi")

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• by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875), no title, first published 1862 [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 Evgenii Fedorovich Alenev (1864 - 1902), "На нивы жёлтые", op. 13 (7 Романсов с сопровождением фортепиано (7 Romansov s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 1, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
• by Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861 - 1906), "На нивы жёлтые", op. 10 no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jules Bleichmann (1868 - 1909), "На нивы жёлтые", op. 11 no. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Feliks Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (1863 - 1931), "На нивы жёлтыя нисходит тишина", op. 30 no. 3, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Souvenir de Kozatskoé, no. 3, Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
• by Vladimir Evgenevich Byutsov (1887 - 1959), "На нивы жёлтые", op. 1 (12 романсов) no. 7, published 1906 [ voice and piano ], Moscow: P. Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolai Nikolayevich Cherepnin (1873 - 1945), "На нивы жёлтые", op. 1 (6 романсов для меццосопрано с сопровождением фортепиано (6 romansov dlja meccosoprano s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 3 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
• by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "На нивы жёлтые", op. 67 (Восемьнадцать стихотворении А.К. Толстого = Vosem'nadcat' stikhotvorenii A. K. Tolstogo (18 Poems of A. K. Tolstoy)) no. 9, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Moscow: P. Jurgenson [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin (1883 - 1957), "На нивы жёлтые" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "На нивы жёлтые" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Aleksandr Ippolitovich Mann (1864 - 1922), "На нивы жёлтые нисходит тишина" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "На нивы жёлтые нисходит тишина", op. 301 no. 13 (2019) [ voice and piano ], from 20 Lieder nach Alexei K. Tolstoi, no. 13 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Vladimir Ivanovich Pol (1875 - 1962), "На нивы жёлтые" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "На нивы жёлтые нисходит тишина", op. 39 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 3 (1897), also set in French (Français) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Konstantin Nikolayevich Startsev , "На нивы жёлтые нисходит тишина" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "На нивы жёлтые", op. 57 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 2, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Nikolay K. Zmirlov , "На нивы жёлтые" [sung text not yet checked]

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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by G. Jorissenne ; composed by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hans Schmidt (1854 - 1923) ; composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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