Night | The dim light of the candle flickers

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by Daniil Maximovich Rathaus (1868 - 1937)

Translation © by Jennifer Gliere

Ночь

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Меркнет слабый свет свечи... 
Бродит мрак унылый... 
И тоска сжимает грудь 
С непонятной силой...

На печальные глаза 
Тихо сон нисходит...
И с прошедшим в этом миг
Речь душа заводит.

Истомилася она 
Горестью глубокой.
Появись же, хоть во сне, 
О, мой друг далекий!

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Text Authorship:

by Daniil Maximovich Rathaus (1868 - 1937) [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 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Ночь", op. 73 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 2 (1893) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Jennifer Gliere) , "Night", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Nuit", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bruno Tutenberg) , "Nachts"

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 42

Night

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

The dim light of the candle flickers,
Depressing gloom creeps all around,
And longing grips the chest
With incomprehensible power.
 
On my sad eyes
Quietly sleep descends,
And at that moment, my heart
Converses with the past.
 
My spirit is exhausted
With deeper anguish.
Appear then, my distant friend,
If only in a dream!

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Daniil Maximovich Rathaus (1868 - 1937)
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This text was added to the website: 2017-08-03
Line count: 12
Word count: 54