The tears are trembling | I see a tear in your jealous sight

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by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875)

Translation © by Leonid Gulchin

Слеза дрожит в твоём ревнивом взоре

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Слеза дрожит в твоём ревнивом взоре...
О, не грусти, ты всё мне дорога!
Но я любить могу лишь на просторе,
мою любовь, широкую, как море,
вместить не могут, нет! вместить не могут жизни берега.

О, не грусти, мой друг, земное минет горе,
пожди ещё, неволя недолга.
В одну любовь мы все сольемся вскоре,
в одну любовь, широкую, как море,
что не вместят, нет! что не вместят земные берега.

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Text Authorship:

by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875), no title, first published 1858 [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 Feliks Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (1863 - 1931), "Слеза дрожит в твоём ревнивом взоре" [sung text not yet checked]
by Grigory Andreyevich Lishin (1854 - 1888), "Слеза дрожит в твоём ревнивом взоре" [sung text not yet checked]
by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Слеза дрожит в твоём ревнивом взоре", op. 301 no. 1 (2019) [ voice and piano ], from 20 Lieder nach Alexei K. Tolstoi, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Слеза дрожит", op. 6 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 4 (1869) [sung text checked 1 time]

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Also set in French (Français), a translation by A. Aleksandrova ; composed by Feliks Mikhailovich Blumenfeld.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Julius Rünger, Franz Schreker.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Feliks Mikhailovich Blumenfeld.

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ENG English (Leonid Gulchin) , "The tears are trembling", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 10
Word count: 68

The tears are trembling

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

 I see a tear in your jealous sight...
 Oh, don't yearn; you're still dear to me!
 But I can love only in expanse,
 And my love, as wide as a sea,
 Cannot fit into the shores of life.
 
 Oh, don't yearn, my darling; the troubles of life will end soon,
 Just wait a bit more... the bondage is not long.
 We all will interflow into one Love soon,
 Into Love, which is as wide as a sea,
 Which cannot fit into the shores of life.

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 86