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Я пережил свои желанья, Я разлюбил свои мечты; Остались мне одни страданья, Плоды сердечной пустоты. Под бурями судьбы жестокой Увял цветущий мой венец, Живу [печально]1, одинокой И жду: придёт ли мой конец? [Так,]2 поздним хладом [поражённый]3, [Как бури слышен зимний свист]4, Один на ветке обнажённой Трепещет запоздалый лист.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Simon: "печальный" ("pechal'nyj")
2 Simon: "Как"
3 Simon, Titov: "поражённой" ("porazhjonnoj")
4 Medtner: "Как слышен зимней бури свист" ("Kak slyshen zimnjej buri svist") [in some editions]
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Note on TransliterationsText Authorship:
- by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), 1821, first published 1823 [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 пережил свои желанья", op. 15 no. 7 [ voice and piano ], from 8 Стихотворений А. С. Пушкина, с сопровождением фортепиано (8 Stikhotvorenij A. S. Pushkina, s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano), no. 7, Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev (1787 - 1851), "Я пережил свои желанья" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Rostislav Grigor'yevich Boyko (1931 - 2002), "Я пережил свои желанья" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sergey Illiarionovich Bulatov (b. 1908), "Я пережил свои желанья" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Osipovich Dyur (1807 - 1839), "Мои думы" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Yury Nikolayevich Golitsyn (1823 - 1872), "Я пережил свои желанья" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Boleslav Viktorovich Grodzky (1865 - 1923), "Я пережил свои желанья" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anatoly Isaakovich Kankarovich (1885 - 1956), "Я пережил свои желанья" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko (1896 - c1938), "Я пережил свои желанья" [sung text not yet checked]
- by A. B. Kurakin (flourished c1877), "Я пережил свои желанья" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pavel Semyonovich Makarov (1841 - 1891), "Я пережил свои желанья" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Я пережил свои желанья", op. 3 (Три романса (Tri romansa)) no. 2 (1903), published 1904 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Элегия", op. 29 (Семь стихотворений А. Пушкина (Sem' stikhotvorenij A. Pushkina)) no. 5 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Я пережил свои желанья", op. 383 (Acht Lieder nach Alexandr S. Puschkin) no. 7 (2025) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Anton Yulyevich Simon (1850 - 1916), "Я пережил свои желанья", op. 14 no. 10, from Vingt mélodies (Двадцать мелодий), no. 20 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Yevgeny Vikentevich Slavinsky (1897 - 1978), "Элегия" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Alexeyevich Titov (1800 - 1875), "Я пережил свои желанья" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Sergeyevich Titov (1798 - 1843), "Я пережил свои желанья", published 1834 [sung text checked 1 time]
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.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (A. D. P. Briggs) , "I have outlived my aspirations", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Jennifer Gliere) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 55
I have outlived my aspirations I have outloved my every dream Suffering is my sole persuasion, My heart feels only what has been. Green was my garland - it has faded, Blown by a destiny severe, But I live on, alone and jaded, Wondering if my end is near. Defeated by the autumn frost, With winter whistling down the heath, On a bare branch, alone and lost, I'm a forgotten, shivering leaf.
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- Translation from Russian (Русский) to English copyright © by A. D. P. Briggs, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), 1821, first published 1823
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 72