Tu and Vous | The polite "vous" by the warm "tu"

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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Пустое вы сердечным ты

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG ENG FRE

Пустое вы сердечным ты 
Она, обмолвясь, заменила
И [все счастливые]¹ мечты
В душе влюблённой [возбудила]². 
Пред ней задумчиво стою,
Свести очей с неё нет силы;
И говорю ей: как вы милы!
И мыслю: как тебя люблю.

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¹ Bulakhov: "вновь тревожные"
² Bulakhov: "пробудила"

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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), "Ты и вы", written 1828 [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 Jules Bleichmann (1868 - 1909), "Ты и вы", op. 8 no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Serge Bortkiewicz (1877 - 1952), "Ты и вы", op. 47 no. 5 (1931?) [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Russische Gedichte. Lieder für Gesang und Klavier, no. 5, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
by Pyotr Petrovich Bulakhov (1822 - 1885), "Пустое вы сердечным ты" [sung text checked 1 time]
by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Ты и вы", op. 57 (Двадцать пять стихотворении Пушкина = Dvadcat' pjat' stikhotvorenii Pushkina (25 Poems of Pushkin)) no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Aleksandr Lvovich Gurilyov (1803 - 1858), "Ты и вы" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Grigory Aleksandrovich Kushelev-Bezborodko (1832 - 1870), "Вы и ты" [sung text not yet checked]
by Nikolai Mikhailovich Ladukhin (1860 - 1918), "Ты и вы" [sung text not yet checked]
by Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Ты и вы" [sung text not yet checked]
by Rudolf Ivanovich Mervolf (1886 - 1942), "Ты и вы" [sung text not yet checked]
by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "Ты и вы", op. 27 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 3 (1883) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Fyodor Ivanovich Silin , "Ты и вы" [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Serge Bortkiewicz (1877 - 1952) ; composed by Serge Bortkiewicz.

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 39

Tu and Vous

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

The polite "vous" by the warm "tu"
she substituted by a slip of the tongue,
stirring up all sorts of happy dreams
in my soul, so much in love.
I stand before her deep in thought,
without the strength to pull my gaze away from her;
And I say to her: "vous" are so nice!
And I think: How I love "tu".

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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