К NN | Когда из глубины души моей | Когда из глубины души моей угрюмой

by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Translation by Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich (1784 - 1833)

Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend

Language: English

When, from the heart where Sorrow sits,
  ⁠Her dusky shadow mounts too high,
And o'er the changing aspect flits,
⁠  And clouds the brow, or fills the eye;
Heed not that gloom, which soon shall sink:
⁠  My Thoughts their dungeon know too well;
Back to my breast the Wanderers shrink,
⁠  And droop within their silent cell.

Note: first published in Childe Harold, 1814 (Seventh Edition).

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by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend", written 1813, first published 1814 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich (1784 - 1833) , "К NN", written 1819 ; composed by Erazm Rafal Dłuski.

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Когда из глубины души моей угрюмой

Language: Russian (Русский) after the English

Когда из глубины души моей угрюмой,
‎Где грусть одна живёт в тоске немой,
Проступит мрачная на бледный образ мой
‎И осенит чело мне чёрной думой, —
‎На сумрачный ты вид мой не ропщи:
Моё страдание своё жилище знает;
Оно сойдёт опять во глубину души,
Где, нераздельное, безмолвно обитает.

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Text Authorship:

by Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich (1784 - 1833), "К NN", written 1819 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in English by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend", written 1813, first published 1814
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Erazm Rafal Dłuski (1857 - 1923), "Когда из глубины души моей", published 1891-1892 [ voice and piano ], from Романсы (Romansy) [1891-1892], no. 4, St. Petersburg: J.H. Zimmermann [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-06-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 48