À un critique | Quand un poète, décrivant une dame, commence

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by Aleksandr Mikhailovich Glikberg (1880 - 1932), as Sasha Chyorny

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Критику

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG FRE LIT

Когда поэт, описивая даму, начнёт:
,,Я шла по улице. В боко впился корсет``
Здесь я не понимал конечно
прямо что, мол, под дамою скривается поэт.
Я истину тебе по-друшески открою:
поэт мужчина и даже с бородою.

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Text Authorship:

by Aleksandr Mikhailovich Glikberg (1880 - 1932), as Sasha Chyorny [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 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Критику", op. 109 no. 1 (1960), from Пять сатир = Pjat' satir, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English [singable] (Leonard Lehrman) , "To a critic", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "À un critique", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , "Kritikui", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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À un critique

Language: French (Français) after the Russian (Русский)

Quand un poète, décrivant une dame, commence :
« Je marchais dans la rue. Mon corset me faisait mal au côté. »
Ici, ne prenez pas ce « je » à la lettre,
Naturellement, derrière la dame était caché un poète.
En vérité je te révèle amicalement ceci :
Le poète est un homme et même avec une barbe.

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksandr Mikhailovich Glikberg (1880 - 1932), as Sasha Chyorny
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This text was added to the website: 2015-08-29
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Word count: 57