В безмолвии садов, весной, во мгле ночей,
Поёт над розою восточный соловей.
Но роза милая не чувствует, не внемлет,
И под влюбленный гимн колеблется и дремлет.
Не так ли ты поёшь для хладной красоты?
Опомнись, о поэт, к чему стремишься ты?
Она [не слушает, не чувствует]1 поэта;
Глядишь, она цветет; взываешь -- нет ответа.

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¹ Cui: "не чувствует, не слушает" ("ne chuvstvujet, ne slushajet")

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• by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), "Соловей и роза" [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 Georgy Petrovich Bazilevsky (b. 1887), "Соловей" [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Соловей и роза", op. 76 no. 4 (1965), from Эхо Поэта = `Ekho Po`eta, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Соловей", op. 33 no. 1 (1885-1886), published 1886 [ voice and piano ], St. Petersburg: Bessel [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Anton Antonovich Derfeldt (1810 - 1869), "Соловей и роза" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Соловей и роза" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shefer (1866 - 1914), "Соловей" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Aleksandr Timofeyevich Zubanov (1873 - 1903), "Соловей" [sung text not yet checked]

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

• ENG English (Lyle Neff) , "The nightingale and the rose", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Hans Keller) , "Die Nachtigall und die Rose", copyright ©

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