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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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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with А.Н.Апухтин, Стихотворения. Библиотека поэта. Большая серия. 2-е изд., Ленинград: Советский писатель, 1961.
1 Prokofiev: "последний" (poslednij)Show a transliteration: Default | DIN | GOST
Note on TransliterationsAuthorship
- by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893), no title, written 1879 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875 - 1956), "Отчалила лодка", op. 63 no. 12 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), "Отчалила лодка", op. 9 no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
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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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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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"Authorship
- Translation from Russian (Русский) to English copyright © 2016 by Jennifer Gliere, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893), no title, written 1879
This text was added to the website: 2016-12-28
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