I loved you | I loved you: and perhaps this love

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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Я вас любил: любовь ещё, быть может

Language: Russian (Русский)

Available translation(s): ENG FRE ITA

Я вас любил: любовь ещё, быть может,
В душе моей угасла не совсем;
Но пусть она вас больше не тревожит:
Я не хочу печалить вас ничем.

Я вас любил безмолвно, безнадежно,
[То робостью, то ревностью томим]¹:
Я вас любил так искренно, так нежно,
Как дай вам Бог любимой быть другим.

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¹ Tolstoy: "То ревностью, то страстию томим " ("To revnost'ju, to strastiju tomim")

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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), no title, 1829, first published 1830 [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 Fyodor Stepanovich Akimenko (1876 - 1945), "Я вас любил", op. 6 (4 Romansa s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano (4 Романса с сопровождением фортепиано) = Vier Romanzen für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev (1787 - 1851), "Я вас любил", 1834, published 1834 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Vladislav Frantsevich Aloiz (1860 - c1917), "Я вас любил", op. 43 no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Feliks Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (1863 - 1931), "Я вас любил", op. 30 no. 5, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Souvenir de Kozatskoé, no. 5, Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
by Leslie Crabtree (b. 1941), "Я вас любил", 1972 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Я вас любил", op. 33 no. 3 (1885-1886), published 1886 [ voice and piano ], St. Petersburg: Bessel [sung text checked 1 time]
by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (1813 - 1869), "Я вас любил" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Kara Abulfaz ogly Karayev (1918 - 1982), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
by Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko (1896 - c1938), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
by Grigory Aleksandrovich Kushelev-Bezborodko (1832 - 1870), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
by Viktor Ivanovich Lipchenko , "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Я вас любил", op. 32 (Шесть стихотворений (Shest' stikhotvorenij)) no. 4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Olga Vasilyevna Nikolskaya (b. 1916), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergey Yevgenevich Novikov (d. 1944), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergey Vladimirovich Protopopov (1883 - 1954), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergey Alekseyevich Razoryonov (1909 - 1996), "Я вас любил" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov (1864 - 1920), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
by A. D. Sheremetev (1859 - 1931), "Я вас любил" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Boris Sergeyevich Sheremetyev (1822 - 1906), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
by Yevgeny Vikentevich Slavinsky (1897 - 1978), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
by Feofil Matveyevich Tolstoy (1809 - 1881), "Я вас любил", published 1831 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Nikolay Apollonovich Tutkovsky (1857 - 1931), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]
by Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov (1801 - 1848), "Я вас любил" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Mikhailo Mikhaylovych Zherbin (1911 - 2004), "Я вас любил" [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation possibly by Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859 - 1951); composed by Josef Bohuslav Foerster.
Also set in English, a translation by Zola Essman ; composed by Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork.
Also set in Polish (Polski), a translation by Julian Tuwim (1894 - 1953) , no title ; composed by Henryk Czyż.
Also set in Russian (Русский), [adaptation] ; composed by Aleksandr Lvovich Gurilyov.
Also set in Ukrainian (Українська), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Yaroslav Yosypovych Lopatynsky.

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

ENG English (Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi) , "I loved thee", appears in Russian Lyrics, first published 1916

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 50

I loved you

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

 I loved you: and perhaps this love
 in my soul has not yet died out;
 But I do not wish it to trouble you any more:
 I do not want to grieve you with anything.
 
 I loved you silently, hopelessly,
 now timid, now jealous;
 May God grant that another someday will love you
 as sincerely, as tenderly as I did.

Authorship:

Translation from Russian (Русский) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:

a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), no title, 1829, first published 1830

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 61