Amid gloomy days | Amid gloomy days and under the weight of troubles

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by Daniil Maximovich Rathaus (1868 - 1937)

Translation © by Sergey Rybin

Средь мрачных дней

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG FRE POL

Средь мрачных дней, под гнетом бед,
из мглы туманной прошлых лет,
как отблеск радостных лучей,
мне светит взор твоих очей.

Под обаяньем светлых снов
мне мнится, я с тобою вновь.
При свете дня, в ночной тиши
делюсь восторгами души.

Я вновь с тобой! - моя печаль
умчалась в пасмурную даль...
И страстно вновь хочу я жить -
тобой дышать, тебя любить!

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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 Eduard Stefanovich Kabella (b. 1855), "Средь мрачных дней" [sung text not yet checked]
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Средь мрачных дней", op. 73 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , "Amid gloomy days", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Au milieu des jours sombres", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bruno Tutenberg)
POL Polish (Polski) (Alicja Istigniejew) , "Wśród mrocznych dni", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 12
Word count: 59

Amid gloomy days

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

Amid gloomy days and under the weight of troubles,
From the misty haze of years past, 
Like a spark from some joyous ray of light
Your eyes shine upon me. 

Under the spell of lucid dreams I imagine
That I'm together with you again, 
By the light of day and in the silence of night, 
Sharing with you the elation of my soul. 

I am with you again! -- my sorrow 
Has fled into the murky distance...
And fervently I want to live again -- 
To breathe you, to love you!

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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-26
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Word count: 89