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by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925)

Kakaya noch`! YA ne mogu
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Kakaya noch`! YA ne mogu…
Ne spitsya mne. Takaya lunnost`!
Eshhe kak budto beregu
V dushe utrachennuyu yunost`.

Podruga oxladevshix let,
Ne nazy'vaj igru lyubov`yu.
Pust` luchshe e`tot lunny'j svet
Ko mne struitsya k izgolov`yu.

Pust` iskazhenny'e cherty'
On obrisovy'vaet smelo, —
Ved` razlyubit` ne smozhesh` ty',
Kak polyubit` ty' ne sumela.

Lyubit` lish` mozhno tol`ko raz.
Vot ottogo ty' mne chuzhaya,
Chto lipy' tshhetno manyat nas,
V sugroby' nogi pogruzhaya.

Ved` znayu ya i znaesh` ty',
Chto v e`tot otsvet lunny'j, sinij
Na e`tix lipax ne czvety' —
Na e`tix lipax sneg da inej.

Chto otlyubili my' davno,
Ty' — ne menya, a ya — druguyu,
I nam oboim vse ravno
Igrat` v lyubov` nedoroguyu.

No vse zh laskaj i obnimaj
V lukavoj strasti poceluya,
Pust` serdczu vechno snitsya maj
I ta, chto navsegda lyublyu ya.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925), no title, written 1925 [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 Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Какая ночь! Я не могу" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-14
Line count: 28
Word count: 137

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