Dialogue of Hamlet with his conscience | She is at the bottom

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by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941)

Translation © by Sergey Rybin

Диалог Гамлета с совестью

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG FRE

-- На дне она, где ил
И водоросли ... спать в них
Ушла, -- но сна и там нет! 
-- Но я её любил, 
Как сорок тысяч братьев
Любит не могут! 
                 -- Гамлет! 

На дне она, где ил:
Ил! . . . И последний венчик 
Всплыл на приречных бревнах . . .
-- Но я её любил,
Как сорок тысяч ... 
                      -- Меньше
Всё ж, чем один любовник.

На дне она, где ил. 
-- Но я её --
              Лыубил?

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Text Authorship:

by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941), written 1923 [author's text not yet checked 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 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Диалог Гамлета с совестью", op. 143a no. 3, from Шесть стихотворении Марини Цветаевой = Shest' stikhotvorenii Marini Cvetajevoj, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , "Dialogue of Hamlet with his conscience", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Dialogue entre Hamlet et sa conscience", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 17
Word count: 69

Dialogue of Hamlet with his conscience

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

-- She is at the bottom, 
where mud and weed...
She went to sleep there, --
But even there she can't find sleep!
-- But I loved her, 
as forty thousand brothers cannot love!
        -- Hamlet! 

She is at the bottom, where mud: mud!...
And the last wreath 
has washed up upon the riverside decking...
-- But I loved her, 
as forty thousand...
        -- Still less 
than one lover.
 
She is at the bottom, where mud.
-- But I 
        loved her...?

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Based on:

a text in Russian (Русский) by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941), written 1923
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This text was added to the website: 2020-09-16
Line count: 17
Word count: 74