Wait a minute! What is the hurry?

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by Nikolai Porfiryevich Grekov (1810 - 1866)

Translation © by Jennifer Gliere

Погоди! Для чего торопиться!

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Погоди! Для чего торопиться!
Ведь и так жизнь несется стрелой!
Погоди! Погоди! ты успеешь проститься,
Как лучами восток загорится.
Но дождёмся ль мы ночи такой?

Посмотри, посмотри, как чудесно
Убран звездами купол небесный!
Как мечтательно смотрит луна!
Как темно в этой сени древеснои,
И какая везде тишина!

Только слышно, как шепчут берёзы,
Да стучит сердце в пылкой груди...
Воздух весь полон запахом розы...
Милый друг! Это жизнь, а не грёзы!
Жизнь летит... погоди! Жизнь летит... погоди!

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Text Authorship:

by Nikolai Porfiryevich Grekov (1810 - 1866), no title, first published 185-? [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), "Погоди", op. 16 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 2 (1872) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Jennifer Gliere) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Attends", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bruno Tutenberg) , "O verweil!"

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 76

Wait a minute! What is the hurry?

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

Wait a minute! What is the hurry?
After all, life flies like an arrow. 
Wait a minute! Wait a minute! you will have time to say goodbye 
As rays of the east brighten,
And how long will we wait for such a night?

Look, look, how wonderful 
the wonderful dome of the sky is, adorned with stars!
How dreamily the moon looks down!
How dark it is in this canopy of wood,
And what silence everywhere!
 
All we hear is the whispering birches,
and the heart pounding in the ardent breast…
The air is full with the smell of roses,
Dear friend! This is life, not dreams!
Life is flying ... wait!

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Translation of title "Погоди" = "Wait!"

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This text was added to the website: 2017-08-03
Line count: 15
Word count: 111