by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
Translation by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949)
Как миловидна ты!
Language: Russian (Русский) after the Aeolic Greek
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Как миловидна ты! Как очи темны желаньем! Эрос медвяный свет Струит на твои ланиты. Знаком умильным тебя Отметила Афродита.
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Note on TransliterationsText Authorship:
- by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949), no title, appears in Сапфо и Алкей (Sapfo i Alkej) [an adaptation] [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Arthur Vincent Lourié (1891 - 1966), "Из свадебных песен", 1914 [ voice and piano ], from Греческие песни на тексты из Сафо в переводе Вяч. Иванова (Grecheskije pesni na teksty iz Safo, v perevode Vjacheslava Ivanova), no. 7, Петроград / Москва (Petrograd / Moscow), Государственное музыкальное издательство (Gosudarstvennoe muzykal’noe izdatel’stvo ) [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2015-11-04
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