I beg for mercy! | I beg for mercy! Do not vex me, Spring

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by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1865 - 1941)

Translation © by Michael Subotin

Пощады я молю!

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Пощады я молю! Не мучь меня, весна,
Не подходи ко мне с болезненною лаской,
И сердца не буди от мертвенного сна
Своей младенческой, но трогательной сказкой.
Ты видишь, как я слаб, о, сжалься надо мной!
Меня томит и жжет твой ветер благовонный,
Я дорого купил забвенье и покой,
Оставь же их душе, страданьем утомленной...

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Text Authorship:

by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1865 - 1941) [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 Feliks Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (1863 - 1931), "Пощады я молю", op. 41 no. 1, published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Весна: сюита из четырёх романсов для пения с сопровождением фортепиано (Vesna: sjuita iz chetyrjokh romansov dlja penija s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano), no. 1, Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Пощады я молю!", op. 26 (Пятнадцать романсов = Pjatnadcat' romansov (Fifteen songs)) no. 8 (1906) [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Michael Subotin) , "I beg for mercy!", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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I beg for mercy!

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

 I beg for mercy! Do not vex me, Spring,
 Do not approach me with painful caress,
 And do not wake the heart from deathly sleep
 With your infantile but touching tale.
 You see how weak I am, o, have mercy upon me!
 Your fragrant wind torments and burns me,
 I purchased rest and peace at great expense,
 So leave them to the soul, weary from suffering.

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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