The fire of desire burns in my blood

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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837)

Translation © by Sergey Rybin

В крови горит огонь желанья

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

В крови горит огонь желанья, 
Душа тобой уязвлена;
Лобзай меня, твои любзанья
Мне слаще мирра и вина.

Склонись ко мне главою нежной
И да почию безмятежный,
Пока дохнёт весёлый день
И двигнется ночная тень.

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by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), no title, written 1825 [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 Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (1813 - 1869), "В крови горит" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Konstantin Petrovich Galler (1845 - 1888), "В крови горит огонь желанья" [sung text not yet checked]
by Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865 - 1936), "Восточный романс", op. 27 (Две песни на слова А. Пушкина (Dve pesni na slova A. Pushkina)) no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857), "В крови горит огонь желанья" [sung text checked 1 time]
by Nikolay Borisovich Golitsyn (1794 - 1866), "В крови горит огонь желанья" [sung text not yet checked]
by Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "В крови горит огонь желанья" [sung text not yet checked]
by Olga Vasilyevna Nikolskaya (b. 1916), "В крови горит огонь желанья" [sung text not yet checked]

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The fire of desire burns in my blood

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

The fire of desire burns in my blood,
My soul is wounded by you;
Kiss me: your kisses
Are sweeter that myrrh and wine to me!

Incline your head towards me
So I can fall asleep carelessly,
While the heat of the joyful day breezes by,
And the shadow of night approaches!

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