O do not tempt me | O do not tempt me without reason

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by Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800 - 1844)

Translation © by David Angell

Не искушай меня без нужды

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Не искушай меня без нужды 
Возвратом нежности твоей!
Разочарованному чужды
Все обольщенья прежних дней.

Уж я не верю увереньям,
Уж я не верую в любовь
И не могу предаться вновь
Раз изменившим сновиденьям.

[Слепой]¹ тоски моей не множ
Не заводи о прежнем слова
И, друг заботливый, больного
В его дремоте не тревожь!

Я сплю, мне сладко усыпленье,
[Забудь бывалые мечты]²!
В душе моей одно волненье
А не любовь пробудишь ты.

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• A. Dyubyuk • M. Glinka

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¹ Dyubyuk, Glinka: "Немой" ("Nemoj")
² Glinka: "Забыты прежние мечты " ("Zabyty prezhnije mechty")

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Text Authorship:

by Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800 - 1844), "Разуверение", written 1821 [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 Ferdinand Büchner (1825 - 1912), "Разуверение", 1825 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Aleksandr Ivanovich Dyubyuk (1812 - 1897), "Не искушай меня без нужды", subtitle: "Цыганская песня", 1858 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857), "Элегия", alternate title: "Не искушай меня без нужды", 1825 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Разуверение" [sung text not yet checked]

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Word count: 72

O do not tempt me

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

O do not tempt me without reason:
Affection lost cannot return.
How foreign to the broken-hearted
Are all the charms of bygone days!
I can no longer trust thy promise;
I have no longer faith in love;
And cannot suffer once again
To be deceived by phantom visions.

Do not augment my anguish mute;
Say not a word of former gladness.
And, kindly friend, o do not trouble
A convalescent's dreaming rest.
I sleep: how sweet to me oblivion:
Forgotten all my youthful dreams!
Within my soul is naught but turmoil,
And love shall wake no more for thee.

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Evgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800 - 1844), "Разуверение", written 1821
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This text was added to the website: 2004-03-22
Line count: 16
Word count: 99