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by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941)

Sopernicza, a ya k tebe pridu
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Sopernicza, a ya k tebe pridu
Kogda-nibud`, takoyu noch`yu lunnoj,
Kogda lyagushki voyut na prudu
I zhenshhiny' ot zhalosti bezumny'.

I, umilyayas` na bien`e vek
I na revnivy'e tvoi resnicy',
Skazhu tebe, chto ya — ne chelovek,
A tol`ko son, kotory'j tol`ko snitsya.

I ya skazhu: — Utesh` menya, utesh`,
Mne kto-to v serdce zabivaet gvozdi!
I ya skazhu tebe, chto veter — svezh,
Chto goryachi — nad golovoyu — zvyozdy'…

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Text Authorship:

  • by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941), no title, written 1916, appears in Стихотворения 1916 года [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), "Соперница, а я к тебе приду" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-14
Line count: 12
Word count: 71

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