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by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892)

Как нежишь ты, серебряная ночь
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Как нежишь ты, серебряная ночь,
В душе расцвет немой и тайной силы!
О! окрыли и дай мне превозмочь
Весь этот тлен, бездушный и унылый.

Какая ночь! алмазная роса
Живым огнём с огнями неба в споре.
Как океан, разверзлись небеса,
И спит земля и теплится, как море.

Мой дух, о ночь! как падший серафим,
Признал родство с нетленной жизнью звездной,
И, окрылён дыханием твоим,
Готов лететь над этой тайной бездной.

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  • by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), no title [author's text checked 1 time 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 Grigory Abramovich Kreyn (1879 - 1955), "Как нежишь ты, серебряная ночь", op. 9 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa) = Four romances) no. 2 (1911), published 1916 [ voice and piano ], Moscow: P. Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856 - 1915), "Как нежишь ты", op. 18 (Два дуэта (Dva du`eta) = Two duets) no. 1 (1900-1905), published 1906 [ vocal duet for soprano and tenor with piano or orchestra ], Leipzig: M.P. Belaieff [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2017-11-19
Line count: 12
Word count: 69

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