by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
Translation by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949)
Language: Russian (Русский)  after the Aeolic Greek
Вкруг пещеры Нимф, затаенной, влага Хладных струй шумит меж ветвей зеленых И с листвы, колеблемой вод паденьем Льется дремота.
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Note on TransliterationsComposition:
- Set to music by Arthur Vincent Lourié (1891 - 1966), "Сад Нимф", 1914 [ voice and piano ], from Греческие песни на тексты из Сафо в переводе Вяч. Иванова (Grecheskije pesni na teksty iz Safo, v perevode Vjacheslava Ivanova), no. 4, Петроград / Москва (Petrograd / Moscow), Государственное музыкальное издательство (Gosudarstvennoe muzykal’noe izdatel’stvo )
Text Authorship:
- by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949), "Сад Нимф", appears in Сапфо и Алкей (Sapfo i Alkej) [an adaptation]
Based on:
- a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title
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