Слышу ли голос твой 
Звонкий и ласковый,
[Как птичка в клетке, 
Сердце запрыгает]1;

[Встречу]2 ль глаза твои, 
[Лазурно-глубокие]3,
[Душа им навстречу]4 
[Из]5 груди просится,

И как-то весело, 
И [хочется плакать]6,
И так на шею бы 
[К]7 тебе я кинулся.

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¹ Balakirev: "Сердце, как птичка в клетке, запрыгает." ("Serdce, kak ptichka v kletke, zaprygajet.")
² Artsybushev: "Вижу" ("Vizhy")
³ Balakirev: "лазурью глубокие" ("lazur'ju glubokije")
⁴ Artsybushev: "Душа к ним навстречу" ("Dusha k nim navstrechu"); Balakirev, Ippolitov-Ivanov: "Душа навстречу" ("Dusha navstrechu")
⁵ Balakirev, Ippolitov-Ivanov: "К ним из" ("K nim iz")
⁶ Ippolitov-Ivanov: "плакать хочется" ("plakat' khochetsja")
⁷ omitted by Ippolitov-Ivanov.

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Authorship

• by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), no title, written 1838 [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 Fyodor Stepanovich Akimenko (1876 - 1945), "Слышу ли голос твой", op. 5 (4 Romansa s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano (4 Романса с сопровождением фортепиано) = Vier Romanzen für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 4 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
• by Akhilles Nikolayevich Alferaki (1846 - 1919), "Слышу ли голос твой", op. 5 (Trois Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 1, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolai Vasil'yevich Artsybushev (1858 - 1937), "Слышу ли голос твой", op. 5 (3 Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 3, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in French (Français) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Konstantin Yakovlevich Asoskov (1849 - 1912), "Слышу ли голос твой" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837 - 1910), "Слышу ли голос твой" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Feliks Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (1863 - 1931), "Слышу ли голос твой", op. 5 (5 Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 3, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865 - 1936), "Слышу ли голос твой" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857), "Слышу ли голос твой", 1848 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Слышу ли голос твой", op. 36 (Zwölf Lieder aus dem Russischem von F. Bodenstedt) no. 2 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Spina, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "Слышу ли голос твой ", op. 10 (3 Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 2, published 1892 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]

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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Jules Ruelle (1834 - 1892) ; composed by Akhilles Nikolayevich Alferaki, Nikolai Vasil'yevich Artsybushev, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov.
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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by G. Jorissenne ; composed by Feliks Mikhailovich Blumenfeld.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892) , "Lied" ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892) , "Liebesglück", appears in Lieder aus der Fremde: In Beiträgen von Friedrich Bodenstedt, Adolf Elissen, Ferdinand Freiligrath, usw., first published 1857 ; composed by Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf, Carl Winning.
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Line count: 12
Word count: 39

Lorsque j'entends ta voix
Douce et grave à la fois,
Mon cœur s'agite,
Il bat plus vite,

Et quand je vois tes yeux
Plus purs que l'azur des cieux,
Vers toi, chère idole,
Mon âme alors vole !

Joie infinie, d'aimer !
Pourtant je voudrais pleurer.
Dans un désir d'amour, désir immense et fou,
Je rêve qu'un collier mes bras sont à ton cou !