Pourquoi mon cœur bat-il si vite ? Qu'ai-je donc en moi qui s'agite Dont je me sens épouvanté ? Ne frappe-t-on pas à ma porte ? Pourquoi ma lampe à demi morte M'éblouit-elle de clarté ? Dieu puissant ! tout mon corps frissonne. Qui vient ? qui m'appelle ? -- Personne. Je suis seul, c'est l'heure qui sonne ; Ô solitude ! ô pauvreté !
Text Authorship:
- by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), "Le poète", appears in Poésies nouvelles, in La Nuit de Mai [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):
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893) , "Отрывок", subtitle: "Из А. Мюссе", first published 1886 ; composed by Vasily Pavlovich Kalafati, Nikolai Ivanovich Kharito, Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov, Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov.
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This text was added to the website: 2006-10-19
Line count: 10
Word count: 54
Chto tak usilenno serdce bol'noje B'jotsja, i prosit, i zhazhdet pokoja? Chem ja vzvolnovan ispugan v nochi? Stuknula dver' zastonav i zanoja. Gasnushchej lampy blesnuli luchi... Bozhe moj. Dukh mne v grudi zakhvatilo! Kto-to zovjot menja, shepchet unylo... Kto-to voshjol...? Moja kel'ja pusta, Net nikogo, `eto polnoch' probilo... O, odinochestvo, o nishcheta!
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Text Authorship:
- by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893), "Отрывок", subtitle: "Из А. Мюссе", first published 1886 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), "Le poète", appears in Poésies nouvelles, in La Nuit de Mai
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Vasily Pavlovich Kalafati (1869 - 1942), "Что так усиленно сердце", op. 2 (Chetyre romansa) no. 1, published <<1895 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolai Ivanovich Kharito (1886 - 1918), "Отрывок из А. Мюссе", 1913 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Отрывок из А. Мюссе", op. 21 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve songs)) no. 6 (1902) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov (1866 - 1920), "Отрывок из А. Мюссе" [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2018
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 52