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by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)

Opyat`, opyat` ya videl vzor tvoj mily'j
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Opyat`, opyat` ya videl vzor tvoj mily'j,
‎‎      YA govoril s toboj.
I mne by'loe, vzyatoe mogiloj,
‎‎      Napomnil golos tvoj –
K chemu? – drugoj lobzaet e`ti ochi
‎‎      I ruku zhmet tvoyu!
Drugomu golos tvoj vo mrake nochi
‎‎      Tverdit: lyublyu! lyublyu!

Otkrojsya mne: uzheli nepritvorny'
‎‎      Lobzaniya tvoi?
Oni pravam supruzhestva pokorny',
‎‎      No ne pravam lyubvi;
On dlya tebya ne sozdan; ty' rodilas`
‎‎      Dlya plamenny'x strastej.
Otdav emu sebya, ty' ne sprosilas`
‎‎      U sovesti svoej.

On chuvstvoval li trepet potaenny'j
‎‎      V prisutstvii tvoem;
Umel li prezirat` on mir prezrenny'j,
‎‎      Chtob my'slit` ob odnom;
Vstrechal li on s molchan`em i slezami
‎‎      Privet xolodny'j tvoj,
I luchshimi l` on zhertvoval godami
‎‎      Mgnoveniyam s toboj? –

Net! ya uveren, tvoego… blazhenstva
‎‎      Ne mozhet sdelat` tot,
Kto krasoty' naruzhnoj sovershenstva
‎‎      Odni v tebe najdet.
Tak! ty' ego ne lyubish`… tajnoj vlast`yu
‎‎      Prikovana ty' vnov`
K dushe pechal`noj, neznakomoj schast`yu,
‎      No nezhnoj kak lyubov`.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), no title [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 Vladimir Mitrofanovich Ivanov-Korsunsky (1891 - 1942), "Опять, опять я видел взор твой" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-07-10
Line count: 32
Word count: 163

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