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by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890 - 1960)

Melo, melo po vsej zemle
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Melo, melo po vsej zemle
Vo vse predely'.
Svecha gorela na stole,
Svecha gorela.

Kak letom roem moshkara
Letit na plamya,
Sletalis` xlop`ya so dvora
K okonnoj rame.

Metel` lepila na stekle
Kruzhki i strely'.
Svecha gorela na stole,
Svecha gorela.

Na ozarenny'j potolok
Lozhilis` teni,
Skreshhen`ya ruk, skreshhen`ya nog,
Sud`by' skreshhen`ya.

I padali dva bashmachka
So stukom na pol.
I vosk slezami s nochnika
Na plat`e kapal.

I vse teryalos` v snezhnoj mgle
Sedoj i beloj.
Svecha gorela na stole,
Svecha gorela.

Na svechku dulo iz ugla,
I zhar soblazna
Vzdy'mal, kak angel, dva kry'la
Krestoobrazno.

Melo ves` mesyacz v fevrale,
I to i delo
Svecha gorela na stole,
Svecha gorela.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890 - 1960), "Зимняя ночь", written 1946 [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), "Мело, мело по всей земле" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-14
Line count: 32
Word count: 112

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