Medlitel`no vlekutsya dni moi,
I kazhdy'j mig v [uny'lom]1 serdce mnozhit
Vsyo goresti neschastlivoj lyubvi            
[I vse mechty' bezumiya]2 trevozhit.

No ya molchu; ne sly'shen ropot moj;
YA slyozy' l`yu; mne slyozy' uteshen`e;
Moya dusha, [plenennaya]3 toskoj,
V nix gor`koe naxodit naslazhden`e.

O zhizni [chas]4, leti, ne zhal` tebya,
Ischezni v t`me, pustoe prividen`e;
Mne dorogo lyubvi moej muchen`e;
Puskaj umru, no pust` umru, lyubya!

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¹ Cui: "uvjadshem"
² Cui: "I tjazhkoje bezumije"
³ Cui: "ob"jataja"
⁴ Cui: "son"

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• by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), "Желание" [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 Evgenii Fedorovich Alenev (1864 - 1902), "Медлительно влекутся дни мои", op. 16 no. 1 [voice and piano], from 8 Стихотворений А. С. Пушкина, с сопровождением фортепиано (8 Stikhotvorenij A. S. Pushkina, s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano), no. 1, Leipzig, Belaieff [ sung text not verified ]
• by Feliks Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (1863 - 1931), "Желание", op. 30 no. 6, published 1900 [voice and piano], from Souvenir de Kozatskoé, no. 6, Leipzig, Belaieff [ sung text not verified ]
• by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Желание", op. 57 (Двадцать пять стихотворении Пушкина = Dvadcat' pjat' stikhotvorenii Pushkina (25 Poems of Pushkin)) no. 25. [ sung text verified 1 time]
• by Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865 - 1936), "Желание", op. 60 (Шесть романсов (Shest' romansov)) no. 2 (1898). [ sung text not verified ]
• by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Медлительно влекутся дни мои", op. 51 (5 романсов на слова Пушкина, с сопровождением фортепиано (5 romansov na slova Pushkina, s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 1 (1897). [ sung text not verified ]

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