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by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925)

Mne grustno na tebya smotret`
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Mne grustno na tebya smotret`,
Kakaya bol`, kakaya zhalost`!
Znat`, tol`ko ivovaya med`
Nam v sentyabre s toboj ostalas`.

Chuzhie guby' raznesli
Tvoe teplo i trepet tela.
Kak budto dozhdik morosit
S dushi, nemnogo omertveloj.

Nu chto zh! YA ne boyus` ego.
Inaya radost` mne otkry'las`.
Ved` ne ostalos` nichego,
Kak tol`ko zhelty'j tlen i sy'rost`.

Ved` i sebya ya ne sbereg
Dlya tixoj zhizni, dlya uly'bok.
Tak malo projdeno dorog,
Tak mnogo sdelano oshibok.

Smeshnaya zhizn`, smeshnoj razlad.
Tak by'lo i tak budet posle.
Kak kladbishhe, useyan sad
V berez izglodanny'e kosti.

Vot tak zhe otczvetem i my'
I otshumim, kak gosti sada…
Kol` net czvetov sredi zimy',
Tak i grustit` o nix ne nado.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925), no title, written 1923 [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), "Мне грустно на тебя смотреть" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-14
Line count: 24
Word count: 116

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