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by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857)
Translation by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893)

Le poète
Language: French (Français) 
Pourquoi mon cœur bat-il si vite ?
Qu'ai-je donc en moi qui s'agite
Dont je me sens épouvanté ?
Ne frappe-t-on pas à ma porte ?
Pourquoi ma lampe à demi morte
M'éblouit-elle de clarté ?
Dieu puissant ! tout mon corps frissonne.
Qui vient ? qui m'appelle ? -- Personne.
Je suis seul, c'est l'heure qui sonne ;
Ô solitude ! ô pauvreté !

Text Authorship:

  • by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), "Le poète", appears in Poésies nouvelles, in La Nuit de Mai

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2006-10-19
Line count: 10
Word count: 55

Отрывок из А. Мюссе
 (Sung text for setting by S. Rachmaninov)
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Language: Russian (Русский)  after the French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
Что так усиленно сердце больное
Бьётся, и просит, и жаждет покоя?
Чем я взволнован испуган в ночи?
Стукнула дверь застонав и заноя.
Гаснущей лампы блеснули лучи...
Боже мой. Дух мне в груди захватило!
Кто-то зовёт меня, шепчет уныло...
Кто-то вошёл...? Моя келья пуста,
Нет никого, это полночь пробило...
О, одиночество, о нищета!

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Composition:

    Set to music by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Отрывок из А. Мюссе", op. 21 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve songs)) no. 6 (1902)

Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893), "Отрывок", subtitle: "Из А. Мюссе", first published 1886

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), "Le poète", appears in Poésies nouvelles, in La Nuit de Mai
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2018
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 52

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