Отчалила лодка… Чуть брезжил рассвет
Language: Russian (Русский)
Available translation(s): ENG FRE
Отчалила лодка… Чуть брезжил рассвет…
В ушах раздавался [прощальный]1 привет,
Дышал он нежданною лаской…
Свинцовое море шумело кругом…
Всё это мне кажется сладостным сном,
Волшебной, несбыточной сказкой!
О нет, то не сон был! В дали голубой
Две белые чайки неслись над водой,
И серые тучки летели, --
И всё, что сказать я не мог, не успел,
Кипело в душе... и восток чуть алел,
И волны шумели, шумели!
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Confirmed with А.Н.Апухтин, Стихотворения. Библиотека поэта. Большая серия. 2-е изд.,
Ленинград: Советский писатель, 1961.
1 Prokofiev: "последний" (poslednij)
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Pallady Andreyevich Bogdanov (1881 - 1971), "Отчалила лодка" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875 - 1956), "Отчалила лодка", op. 63 (Двенадцать романсов (Dvenadcat' romansov) = Twelve Romances) no. 12 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Sergei Grigorevich Golitsyn (1803 - 1868), "Отчалила лодка" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vladimir Mitrofanovich Ivanov-Korsunsky (1891 - 1942), "Отчалила лодка" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Razumnikovich Kochetov (1864 - 1925), "Отчалила лодка" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Boris Vladimirovich Podgoretsky (1873 - 1919), "Отчалила лодка" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), "Отчалила лодка", op. 9 no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Andrey Vladimirovich Shcherbachyov (1869 - 1916), "Отчалила лодка" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sofya Aleksandrovna Zybina (d. 1897), "Отчалила лодка" [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Jennifer Gliere) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le bateau s'en va", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 66
The boat left… dawn had scarcely broken
Language: English after the Russian (Русский)
The boat left… dawn had scarcely broken.
The words of farewell rang in my ears,
The breathed an unexpected greeting …
The leaden sea murmured all around …
It all seems to me a sweet bedtime story,
A magical, unimaginable fairy tale!
But no! It was no dream! In the distance
Two ivory seagulls skimmed over the water,
And the grey clouds flew by,
and all that I could not express, and failed to say
stirred in my soul, and the east glowed faintly red,
And the East murmured!
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Translation of title "Отчалила лодка" = "The boat left"
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