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by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941)

Obvela mne glaza kol'com
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Obvela mne glaza kol'com
Tenevym — bessonnica.
Oplela mne glaza bessonnica
Tenevym vencom.

To-to zhe! Po nocham
Ne molis' — idolam!
Ja tvoju tajnu vydala,
Idolopoklonnica.

Malo — tebe — dnja,
Solnechnogo ognja!

Paru moikh kolec
Nosi, blednolikaja!
Klikala — i naklikala
Tenevoj venec.

Malo — menja — zvala?
Malo — so mnoj — spala?

Ljazhesh', legka licom.
Ljudi poklonjatsja.
Budu tebe chtecom
Ja, bessonnica:

— Spi, uspokojena,
Spi, udostojena,
Spi, uvenchana,
Zhenshchina.

Chtoby — spalos' — legche,
Budu — tebe — pevchim:

— Spi, podruzhen'ka
Neugomonnaja!

Spi, zhemchuzhinka,
Spi, bessonnaja.

I komu ni pisali pisem,
I komu s toboj ni kljalis' my…
Spi sebe.

Vot i razlucheny
Nerazluchnye.
Vot i vypushcheny iz ruk
Tvoi ruchen'ki.
Vot ty i otmuchilas',
Milaja muchenica.

Son — svjat,
Vse — spjat.
Venec — snjat.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892 - 1941), no title, written 1916, appears in Стихотворения 1916 года, in Бессонница (Bessonnica), no. 1 [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 Zhanneta Lazarevna Metallidi (1934 - 2019), "Спи, успокоена", from Вокальный цикл на стихи М. Цветаевой (Vokal'nyj cikl na stikhi M. Cvetajevoj) = Vocal Cycle to the Verses by M. Tsvetayeva, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2025-01-05
Line count: 42
Word count: 131

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