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by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925)

Берёзка
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Зелёная прическа,
Девическая грудь,
О, тонкая березка,
Что загляделась в пруд?

Что шепчет тебе ветер?
О чем звенит песок?
Иль хочешь в косы-ветви
Ты лунный гребешок?

Открой, открой мне тайну
Твоих древесных дум,
Я полюбил печальный
Твой предосенний шум.

И мне в ответ березка:
"О, любопытный друг,
Сегодня ночью звездной
Здесь слезы лил пастух.

Луна стелила тени,
Сияли зеленя.
За голые колени
Он обнимал меня.

И так, вдохнувши глубко,
Сказал под звон ветвей:
"Прощай, моя голубка,
До новых журавлей".

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Text Authorship:

  • by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925) [author's text not yet checked 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 Anatoly Nikolayevich Aleksandrov (1888 - 1982), "Берёзка", op. 24 (Четыре песни на стихи С. Есенина и В. Ходасевича (Chetyre pesni na stikhi S. Esenina i V. Khodasevicha) = Four Songs on Poems by S. Esenin and V. Khodasevich) no. 2 (1924) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georgiy Vasil'yevich Sviridov (1915 - 1998), "Берёзка", from У меня отец - крестьянин (U menja otec - krest'janin) (My father is a peasant), no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-28
Line count: 24
Word count: 79

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