Comme sur des cendres chaudes

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by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803 - 1873)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Как над горячею золой

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG FRE

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Как над горячею золой
Дымится свиток и сгорает,
И огнь сокрытый и глухой
Слова и строки пожирает:

Так грустно тлится жизнь моя
И с каждым днём уходит дымом;
Так постепенно гасну я
В однообразьи нестерпимом...

О, небо, если бы хоть раз
Сей пламень развился по воле,
И, не томясь, не мучась доле,
Я просиял бы и погас!

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Text Authorship:

by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803 - 1873) [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 Mikhail Vasilyevich Antsev (1865 - 1945), "Как над горячею золой" [sung text not yet checked]
by Georgi Lvovitch Catoire (1861 - 1926), "Как над горячею золой", op. 19 no. 1, published 1909 [ voice and piano ], from 4 Стихотворения Тютчева, no. 1, Moscow, Bernard [sung text checked 1 time]
by Gennady Osipovich Korganov (1858 - 1890), "Как над горячею золой" [sung text not yet checked]
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Как над горячею золой", op. 25 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 2 (1874) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Julia Weissberg (1878 - 1942), "Как над горячею золой" [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Jacob Wilde) , "As over the burning ashes", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bruno Tutenberg) , "Gleich einem Brief"

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Comme sur des cendres chaudes

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

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Comme sur des cendres chaudes
Un parchemin fume et brûle,
Et le feu caché et lent
Dévore les mots et les lignes :
Ainsi ma triste vie fume
Et part en fumée chaque jour qui passe ;
Ainsi petit à petit je m'éteins
Dans une monotonie insupportable...
Oh, ciel, si seulement une fois
Cette flamme pouvait brûler librement,
Et, sans languir, sans davantage de torture,
Je pouvais brûler et disparaître !

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This text was added to the website: 2016-07-13
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