Lullaby | Everything is quiet and dark around

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by Tat'yana Lvovna Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874 - 1952)

Translation © by Sergey Rybin

Колыбельная

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Всё тихо вокруг и темно, 
Погасли дневные огни,
И ночь пролетела немая... 
Усни, моё сердце, усни!

Одна я, одна я давно! 
Промчались волшебные сны...  
Спокойствию ночи внимая,
Усни, моё сердце, усни! 

Те дни позабыть ты должна, 
Увы, не вернутся они,
Их ночь поглотила немая... 
Усни, моё сердце, усни!

Нет счастия - призрак оно!
Дарят сновиденья одни
Нам грёзы прекрасные мая.
Усни, моё сердце, усни!

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Text Authorship:

by Tat'yana Lvovna Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874 - 1952) [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 Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861 - 1906), "Колыбельная", op. 70 no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , "Lullaby", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 63

Lullaby

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

Everything is quiet and dark around,
The daytime lights have gone out,
And the silent night has flown by...
Sleep, my heart, sleep!

I am alone, I have been alone for a long time!
Magical dreams have rushed past...
Heeding the calm of the night,
Sleep, my heart, sleep!

You must forget those days,
Alas, they will not return,
The silent night has swallowed them...
Sleep, my heart, sleep!

There is no happiness — it’s a ghost!
Only nightly dreams gift to us
The beautiful dreams of May.
Sleep, my heart, sleep!

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Tat'yana Lvovna Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874 - 1952)
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 92