by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
Translation by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875)

Sun of the sleepless! melancholy star!
Language: English 
Our translations:  CAT CHI ITA
Sun of the sleepless! melancholy star!
Whose tearful beam glows tremulously far!
That show'st the darkness thou canst not dispel,
How like art thou to joy remember'd well!
So gleams the past, the light of other days,
Which shines, but warms not with its powerless rays;
A nightbeam Sorrow watcheth to behold,
Distinct, but distant - clear - but, oh how cold!

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  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Alexis Paulin Pâris) , "Soleil des hommes qui ne peuvent dormir", appears in Mélodies hébraïques, no. 24
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Sole degli insonni", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 60

Неспящих солнце, грустная звезда
 (Sung text for setting by N. Rimsky-Korsakov)
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Language: Russian (Русский)  after the English 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
Неспящих солнце, грустная звезда,
как слезно луч мерцает твой всегда,
как темнота при нём ещё темней,
как он похож на радость прежних дней! 
Так светит прошлое нам в жизненной ночи,
но уж не греют нас бессильные лучи,
звезда минувшего, ты в горе мне видна,
видна, но далека, светла, но холодна.

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  • ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Soleil de ceux qui ne dorment pas, astre mélancolique", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-19
Line count: 8
Word count: 50