by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892)
Alter ego
Language: Russian (Русский)
Kak lileya glyaditsya v nagorny'j ruchej, Ty' stoyala nad pervoyu pesnej moej, I by'la li pri e`tom pobeda, i ch`ya, U ruch`ya l` ot czvetka, u czvetka l` ot ruch`ya? Ty' dushoyu mladencheskoj vsyo ponyala, Chtó mne vy'skazat` tajnaya sila dala, I xot` zhizn` bez tebya suzhdeno mne vlachit`, No my' vmeste s toboj, nas nel`zya razluchit`. Ta trava, chto vdali na mogile tvoej, Zdes` na serdce, chem stare ono, tem svezhej, I ya znayu, vzglyanuvshi na zvyozdy' poroj, Chto vzirali na nix my' kak bogi s toboj. U lyubvi est` slova, te slova ne umrut. Nas s toboj ozhidaet osobenny'j sud; On sumeet nas srazu v tolpe razlichit`, I my' vmeste pridyom, nas nel`zya razluchit`!
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Text Authorship:
- by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), "Alter ego", written 1878, appears in Вечерние огни (Vechernije ogni), in Элегии и думы (Elegii i dumy) [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 Anatoly Nikolayevich Aleksandrov (1888 - 1982), "Alter ego" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mikhail Mikhailovich Ivanov (1849 - 1927), "Alter ego" [sung text checked 1 time]
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