by Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (1783 - 1852)
Na smert` chizhika
Language: Russian (Русский)
Available translation(s): ENG
V sem grobe verny'j chizhik moj! Prirody' miloe tvoren`e, Iz mirnoj oblosti zemnoj On uletel, kak snoviden`e. On dlya lyubvi na svete zhil, On nezhnoj pesenkoj privetnoj, Za lasku nezhnuyu platil, I podletal k ruke privetnoj. No v svete strashno i lyubit`: Emu by'l dan druzhok kry'laty'j; Chtob milogo ne perezhit`, On v grobe skry'lsya ot utraty'.
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Authorship:
- by Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (1783 - 1852) [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 Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "На смерть чижика", op. 21 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve songs)) no. 8 (1902) [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , "On the death of a linnet", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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