Everyone loves you so | Everyone loves you so; even your gentle appearance

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by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875)

Translation © by Sergey Rybin

Тебя так любят все; один твой тихий вид

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Тебя так любят все; один твой тихий вид
Всех делает добрей и с жизнию мирит,
Но ты грустна, в тебе есть скрытое мученье,
В душе твоей звучит какой-то приговор;
Зачем твой ласковый всегда так робок взор,
И очи грустныя так молят о прощеньи,
Как будто солнца свет, и вешние цветы,
И тень в полдневный зной, и шопот по дубравам,
И даже воздух тот, которым дышишь ты,
Все кажется тебе стяжанием неправым?

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by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875), no title, written 1858, first published 1858 [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 Georgi Lvovitch Catoire (1861 - 1926), "Тебя так любят все", op. 1 (Четыре романса) no. 3, published c1888 [ voice and piano ], Moscow: P. Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]
by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Тебя так любят все", op. 301 no. 15 (2019) [ voice and piano ], from 20 Lieder nach Alexei K. Tolstoi, no. 15 [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Тебя так любят все", op. 14 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve songs)) no. 6 (1896) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Taneyev (1850 - 1918), "Тебя так любят все", op. 35 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa) = Four romances) no. 2 (1907) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , "Everyone loves you so", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Everyone loves you so

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

Everyone loves you so; even your gentle appearance 
Makes everybody happier and reconciles them with life, 
But you are sombre, there is a hidden torment within you, 
Some sort of doom resounds within your soul;
Why is your tender glance always so timid,
And your melancholy eyes beg for forgiveness, 
As if the light of the sun, and spring flowers, 
And a shadow in the midday heat, and the rustling in the oak woods, 
And even the air that you breathe - 
All seems to you an unworthy cause?

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875), no title, written 1858, first published 1858
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This text was added to the website: 2020-11-16
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