Follow to the deep wood's weeds, Follow to the wild-briar dingle, Where we seek to intermingle, And the violet tells her tale To the odour-scented gale, For they two have enough to do Of such work as I and you.
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Confirmed with Dr. Garnett, Relics of Shelley, 1862. A fragment.
Text Authorship:
- by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), 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):
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942) , "Отрывок" ; composed by Emil Cooper, as Эмиль Альбертович Купер, Vassily Vasilyevich Nechayev, Vladimir Ivanovich Pol.
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Word count: 40
Idi za mnoju v glub' lesnuju, Tuda gde sumrak goluboj, Tebja ja nežno poceluju, I my [smešaemsja]1 s toboj. Fialka vetru tam vverjaet Svoi dušistye mečty, Vzdychaet, — kak ej byt', ne znaet, S takoj četoj, kak ja i ty.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Nechayev: "забудемся" ("zabudemsja")
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Text Authorship:
- by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942), "Отрывок" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), no title
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Emil Cooper (1877 - 1960), as Эмиль Альбертович Купер, "Иди за мною" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vassily Vasilyevich Nechayev (1895 - 1956), "Иди за мною", op. 1 no. 7 (1918), published 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Девять юношеских песен для голоса с фортепиано (Devjat' junosheskikh pesen dlja golosa s fortepiano) = Dix pièces pour les jeunes, no. 7, Moscow [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Vladimir Ivanovich Pol (1875 - 1962), "Иди за мною" [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2021-07-26
Line count: 8
Word count: 40