Было душно от жгучего света, А взгляды его — как лучи. Я только вздрогнула: этот Может меня приручить. Наклонился — он что-то скажет… От лица отхлынула кровь. Пусть камнем надгробным ляжет На жизни моей любовь.
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- by Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966), no title, appears in Чётки = Chjotki, in Смятение = Smjatenije, no. 1 [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 Leonid Borisovich Bobylyov (b. 1949), "Смятение" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Было душно от жгучего света" [sung text not yet checked]
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