Листья шумели уныло
[Ночью осенней]1 порой;
Гроб [опускали]2 в могилу,
Гроб, озарённый луной.

Тихо, без плача, зарыли
И удалились все прочь,
[Только луна на могилу]3,
[Грустно смотрела]4 всю ночь.

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¹ Musorgsky: "В дубраве ночною" (V dubrave nochnoju)
² Musorgsky, Varlamov: "опустили" (opustili)
³ Musorgsky: "Только, склонясь над могилой" (Tol'ko, sklonjas' nad mogiloj)
⁴ Musorgsky: "Листья шумели" (List'ja shumeli)

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Authorship

• by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893), "Могила", first published 1844 [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 Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875 - 1956), "Листья шумели уныло", op. 23 no. 4 (1905) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839 - 1881), "Листья шумели уныло", 1858, published 1911 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov (1801 - 1848), "Листья шумели уныло" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Victor Han) , "The leaves were whispering sadly", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Les feuilles bruissaient tristement", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Dmitri Sergeyevich Usov) , "Düster und feucht war der Abend"

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 29

Düster und feucht war der Abend,
die rauschenden Wipfel so dicht;
still trug den Sarg man zu Grabe;
tot schien des Mondes Gesicht.

Alle entfernten sich schweigend.
Jeder entblößte das Haupt.
Nur in den düsteren Zweigen
rauschte das herbstliche Laub.