by Evdokiya Petrovna Grafinya Rostopchina (1812 - 1858)
I bol'no, i sladko
Language: Russian (Русский)
I bol'no, i sladko, Kogda, pri nachale ljubvi, To serdce zab'jotsja ukradkoj, To v zhilakh techet likhoradka, To zhar zapylajet v krovi... I bol'no, i sladko!.. Prob'jot chas svidan'ja,— Potupja [predatel'skij]1 vzor, V volnen'i, v tomlen'i neznan'ja, [Bojas' i zhelaja]2 priznan'ja,3 Nachnjosh' i prervjosh' razgovor... I v muku svidan'e!.. Ne vymolvish' slova... Nemejesh'... robejesh'... drozhish'... Dusha, proklinaja okovy, Vsja v rechi izlit'sja b gotova... [No tol'ko gljadish' i molchish' — Net sily, net slova!..]4 Nastanet razluka,— I, kholodno, gordo prostjas', Ujdjosh' s svojej tajnoj i mukoj!.. A v serdce istoma i skuka, I vechnost'ju [nam kazhdyj]5 chas, I smert' nam razluka!.. I sladko, i bol'no... I trepet bezumnyj zatikh; I serdcu legko i razdol'no... Slova polilis' by tak vol'no, No slushat' uzh nekomu ikh,— I sladko, i bol'no!...
P. Tchaikovsky sets stanzas 1-3, 5
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Dyubyuk, Tchaikovsky: "предательный"
2 Dyubyuk, Tchaikovsky: "боишься, желаешь"
3 Tchaikovsky adds "И в муку свиданье!.."
4 Tchaikovsky: "Нет силы, нет слова,/ и только глядишь и молчишь!"
5 Dyubyuk: "каждый нам"
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Text Authorship:
- by Evdokiya Petrovna Grafinya Rostopchina (1812 - 1858), "Слова для музыки" [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 Aleksandr Ivanovich Dyubyuk (1812 - 1897), "И больно, и сладко" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by A. B. Kurakin (flourished c1877), "И больно, и сладко" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "И больно, и сладко", op. 6 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 3, stanzas 1-3,5 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 30
Word count: 128