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by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842)

Akh, kto ty, deva‑krasota?
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Akh, kto ty, deva-krasota?
Tvoi usta, tvoi lanity
Takoju prelest'ju pokryty!
I v kom chudesnaja mechta
Grudi b mladoj ne vzvolnovala,
Kogda b ty na skale krutoj,
Odna, nad bezdnoju morskoj,
Kak deva Pushkina, stojala
Pod beloj dymkoj pokryvala?..
I vkrug tebja odezhdoj snezhnoj
Zefir privetlivo b igral;
Po sgibu plech, po sheje nezhnoj
Svitye kudri razvival?..
Kogda b, kachajasja, dremalo
Pero na shljapke goluboj,
I grud' lebjazhaja vzdykhala
Ljubov'ju devstvennoj, svjatoj?..
Togda b, v serdechnom upojen'i
Skloniv kolena pred toboj,
V nemom i sladostnom zabven'i,
Sgorel by ves', kak ogn' stepnoj!..

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Confirmed with А.В. Кольцов, Стихотворения, Серия "Русская муза". Москва: Художественная литература, 1989.


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Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842), "Красавице", written 1828 [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), "Красавица" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-14
Line count: 21
Word count: 92

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