Ja dumal, serdce pozabylo
Sposobnost' legkuju stradat',
Ja govoril: tomu, chto bylo,
Uzh ne byvat'! uzh ne byvat'!
Proshli [vostorgi]1, i pechali,
[I legkovernye]2 mechty...
No vot opjat' zatrepetali
Pred moshchnoj vlast'ju krasoty.

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¹ Razorenov: "любовные" ("ljubovnyje")
² Razorenov: "смирились легкие" ("smirilis' legkije")

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Text Authorship:

• by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837) [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), "Я думал, сердце позабыло", op. 16 no. 4 [ voice and piano ], from 8 Стихотворений А. С. Пушкина, с сопровождением фортепиано (8 Stikhotvorenij A. S. Pushkina, s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano), no. 4, Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Я думал, сердце позабыло", op. 76 no. 2 (1965), from Эхо Поэта = `Ekho Po`eta, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Olga Andreyevna Donaurova (1851 - 1918), "Я думал, сердце позабыло" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sergey Alekseyevich Razoryonov (1909 - 1996), "Я думал, сердце позабыло" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Dmitry Konstantinovich Sartinsky-Bey , "Я думал сердце позабыло" [sung text not yet checked]

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• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "J'ai pensé que mon cœur avait oublié", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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