Слёзы людские, о слёзы людские,
Льётесь вы ранней и поздней порой,
Льётесь безвестные, льётесь незримые,
[Неистощимые, неисчислимые]1,
Льётесь, как льются струи [дождевые]2
В осень глухую порою ночной.

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¹ older spelling: "Неистощимыя, неисчислимыя" ("Nejistoshchimyja, nejischislimyja")
² older spelling: "дождевыя" ("dozhdevyja")

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• by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803 - 1873), no title, first published 1849? [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 Mikhail Vasilyevich Antsev (1865 - 1945), "Слёзы" [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Nikolai Nikolayevich Cherepnin (1873 - 1945), "Слёзы", op. 8 (4 романса для пения с сопровождением фортепиано (4 romansa dlja penija s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 1, Leipzig, Belaieff [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875 - 1956), "Слёзы людские", op. 6 no. 2 [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "Слёзы", op. 7 (4 Романса для высокаго голоса с сопровождением фортепиано (4 Romansa dlja vysokago golosa s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 2, published 1895 [high voice and piano], Leipzig, Belaieff [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov (1826 - 1894), "Слёзы" [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Слёзы", op. 37 (Pjat' stikhotvorenij) no. 2 [voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov (1866 - 1920), "Слёзы" [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Nataliya Ilinichna Sats (1903 - 1993), "Слёзы" [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shefer (1866 - ?), "Слёзы" [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Слёзы", op. 46 (Шесть дуэтов = Shest' du`etov (Six duets)) no. 3 (1880/1) [duet] [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Vasily Andreyevich Zolotarev (1872 - 1964), "Слёзы" [ sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Paul Collin (1845 - 1915) , "Larmes humaines", appears in Trente poésies russes, mélodies, imitées par Paul Collin, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1894 GER ; composed by René de Boisdeffre.
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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909) , "Les larmes humaines", appears in Petits poèmes russes, in 2. Tioutchev, Paris, G. Charpentier et E. Fasquelle, first published 1893 GER ; composed by Camille Erlanger.
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• GER German (Deutsch) (Hellmuth Pattenhausen) , "Tränen", copyright ©

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