by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893)
Prolozhen zhizni put' besplodnymi stepjami
Language: Russian (Русский)
Prolozhen zhizni put' besplodnymi stepjami, I glush', i mrak… ni khaty, ni kusta… Spit serdce; skovany cepjami I razum, i usta, I dal' pred nami Pusta. I vdrug pokazhetsja ne tak tjazhka doroga, Zakhochetsja i pet', i myslit' vnov'. Na nebe zvezd gorit tak mnogo, Tak burno l'etsja krov'… Mechty, trevoga, Ljubov'! O, gde zhe te mechty? Gde radosti, pechali, Svetivshije nam jarko stol'ko let? Ot ikh ognej v tumannoj dali Chut' viden slabyj svet… I te propali… Ikh net.
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- by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893), no title, written 1888 [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 Ippolitovich Mann (1864 - 1922), "Проложен жизни путь бесплодными степями" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maximilian Oseyevich Steinberg (1883 - 1946), "Проложен жизни путь бесплодными степями..." [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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