by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)
Potok
Language: Russian (Русский)
Istochnik strasti est` vo mne
Velikij i chudesny'j:
Pesok serebryany'j na dne,
Poverxnost` — lik nebesny'j.
No besprestanno by'stry'j tok
Vorotit i krutít pesok,
I nebo nad vodami
Odeto oblakami.
Roditsya s zhizn`yu e`tot klyuch
I s zhizn`yu ischezaet;
V inom on slab, v drugom moguch,
No vsex on uvlekaet.
I pervy'j schastliv, no takoj
YA prazdny'j otdal by' pokoj
Za neskol`ko mgnovenij
Blazhenstva il` muchenij.
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Text Authorship:
- by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), "Поток", written 1830/1831 [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), "Поток" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Andrey Mikhailovich Sevastyanov (1915 - 1991), "Поток" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dmitry Alekseyevich Tolstoy (1923 - 2003), "Поток" [sung text not yet checked]
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