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by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925)

Kakaja noch'! Ja ne mogu
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Kakaja noch'! Ja ne mogu…
Ne spitsja mne. Takaja lunnost'!
Jeshche kak budto beregu
V dushe utrachennuju junost'.

Podruga okhladevshikh let,
Ne nazyvaj igru ljubov'ju.
Pust' luchshe `etot lunnyj svet
Ko mne struitsja k izgolov'ju.

Pust' iskazhennye cherty
On obrisovyvajet smelo, —
Ved' razljubit' ne smozhesh' ty,
Kak poljubit' ty ne sumela.

Ljubit' lish' mozhno tol'ko raz.
Vot ottogo ty mne chuzhaja,
Chto lipy tshchetno manjat nas,
V sugroby nogi pogruzhaja.

Ved' znaju ja i znajesh' ty,
Chto v `etot otsvet lunnyj, sinij
Na `etikh lipakh ne cvety —
Na `etikh lipakh sneg da inej.

Chto otljubili my davno,
Ty — ne menja, a ja — druguju,
I nam oboim vse ravno
Igrat' v ljubov' nedoroguju.

No vse zh laskaj i obnimaj
V lukavoj strasti poceluja,
Pust' serdcu vechno snitsja maj
I ta, chto navsegda ljublju ja.

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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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