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by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)

Lyublyu ya cepi sinix gor
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Lyublyu ya cepi sinix gor,
Kogda, kak yuzhny'j meteor,
Yarka bez sveta i krasna
Vsply'vaet iz-za nix luna,
Czaricza luchshix dum pevcza
I luchshij perl togo vencza,
Kotory'm svod nebes poroj
Gorditsya, budto czar` zemnoj.
Na zapade vechernij luch
Eshhe gorit na rebrax tuch
I ustupit` vsyo medlit on
Lune — ugryumy'j nebosklon;
No skoro gasnet luch zari...
Vy'soko mesyacz. Dve il` tri
Mlady'e tuchki okruzhat
Ego sejchas... vot ves` naryad,
Kotory'm beloe chelo
Emu ubrat` pozvolenó.
Kto ne znaval takix nochej
V ushhel`yax gor il` sred` stepej?
Odnazhdy' pri takoj lune
YA mchalsya na lixom kone
V prostranstve goluby'x dolin,
Kak veter volen i odin.
Tumanny'j mesyacz i menya,
I grivu, i xrebet konya
Srebristy'm bleskom osy'pal;
YA chuvstvoval, kak kon` dy'shal,
Kak on, udarivshi nogoj,
Otbrasy'vaem by'l zemlej,
I ya v chudesnom zaby't`i
Dvizhen`ya skovy'val svoi,
I s nim sebya zhelal ya slit`,
Chtob e`tim beg nash uskorít`.
I dolgo tak moj kon` letel...
I vkrug sebya ya poglyadel:
Vsyo ta zhe step`, vsyo ta zh luna...
Svoj vzor ko mne skloniv, ona,
Kazalos`, uprekala v tom,
Chto chelovek s svoim konem
Xotel vlady'chestvo stepej
V tu noch` osporivat` u nej!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), no title, written 1832 [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 Konstantin Yeremeyevich Matsyutin (1910 - 1990), "Люблю я цепи синих гор" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-15
Line count: 42
Word count: 193

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