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by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803 - 1873)
Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Что ты клонишь над водами
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  CHI FRE
Что ты клонишь над водами,
Ива, макушку свою?
И дрожащими листами,
Словно жадными устами,
Ловишь беглую струю?

Хоть томится, хоть трепещет
Каждый лист твой над струей...
Но струя бежит и плещет,
И, на солнце нежась, блещет,
И смеётся над тобой...

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Text Authorship:

  • by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803 - 1873), first published 1836 [author's text not yet checked 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 Georgi Lvovitch Catoire (1861 - 1926), "Что ты клонишь над водами", op. 18 no. 2 [ women's chorus and piano ], from 3 Стихотворения Тютчева, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Nikolay Alekseyevich Kakhanov , "Что ты клонишь над водами" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov (1826 - 1894), "Что ты клонишь над водами" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Grigory Aleksandrovich Kushelev-Bezborodko (1832 - 1870), "Что ты клонишь над водами" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Aleksandr Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (1847 - ?), "Что ты клонишь над водами" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Matveyev (1912 - 1994), "Что ты клонишь над водами" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Что ты клонишь над водами", op. 24 (Восемь стихотворений (Vosem' stikhotvorenij)) no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Vladimir Ivanovich Pol (1875 - 1962), "Что ты клонишь над водами" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shefer (1866 - 1914), "Ива" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Ива", VWV 1068 (1865), published 1865 [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Elizabeta A. Zhadovskaya , "Что ты клонишь над водами" [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892) , "Die Weide" ; composed by Pauline Viardot-García.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le saule", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Berthold Feiwel)


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: 40

Le saule
Language: French (Français)  after the Russian (Русский) 
Pourquoi te penches-tu vers l'eau,
Saule, ta cime ?
Et avec tes feuilles tremblantes,
Comme une bouche gourmande,
Tu voudrais attraper le flot qui court ?

Bien que faible, et tremblante
Chaque feuille sur le flot...
Mais la rivière court et saute
Et, se dore au soleil, brille,
Et se moque de toi...

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from Russian (Русский) to French (Français) copyright © 2014 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

  • a text in Russian (Русский) by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803 - 1873), first published 1836
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This text was added to the website: 2014-02-11
Line count: 10
Word count: 51

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