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by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 - 1883)

К чему твержу я стих унылый
Language: Russian (Русский) 
К чему твержу я стих унылый,
Зачем, в полночной тишине,
Тот голос страстный, голос милый
Летит и просится ко мне,-

Зачем? огонь немых страданий
В ее душе зажег не я...
В ее груди, в тоске рыданий
Тот стон звучал не для меня.

Так для чего же так безумно
Душа бежит к ее ногам,
Как волны моря мчатся шумно
К недостижимым берегам?

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Text Authorship:

  • by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 - 1883), no title, written 1843 [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 Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "К чему?", op. 29 (Два романса для голоса с сопровождением фортепиано (Dva romansa dlja golosa s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 2, published 1897 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sergey Vladimirovich Yegorov , "К чему твержу я стих унылый" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-12-09
Line count: 12
Word count: 61

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