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by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880 - 1921)

O, kak bezumno za oknom
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  ENG ENG FRE
O, kak bezumno za oknom
Revyot, bushuet burya zlaya,
Nesutsya tuchi, l`yut dozhdyom,
I veter voet, zamiraya!
Uzhasna noch`! V takuyu noch`
Mne zhal` lyudej, lishyonny'x krova,
Sozhalen`e gonit proch` -
V ob``yat`ya xoloda sy'rogo!
Borot`sya s mrakom i dozhdyom,
Stradalcev uchast` razdelyaya...
O, kak bezumno za oknom
Bushuet veter, izny'vaya!

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Note: the poem is preceded by the following epigraph:

Вы, бедные, нагие несчастливцы.
Лир


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Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880 - 1921), no title, written 1899, appears in Стихотворения 1897—1903 гг, не вошедшие в основное собрание, in Разные стихотворения, no. 122, first published 1899 [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 Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Буря", op. 127 no. 5 [ soprano, violin, and piano ], from Семь Стихотворений А. Блока: вокально-инструментальная сюита = Sem' stikhotvorenij A. Bloka, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948 - 2020), "Буря", op. 9 no. 5, published 1972 [ voice and orchestra ], from Shest' stikhotvorenij Aleksandra Bloka, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948 - 2020), "Буря", op. 9a no. 5, published 1972 [ voice and piano ], from Shest' stikhotvorenij Aleksandra Bloka, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English [singable] (David Angell) , copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Anne Evans) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2008, (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: 12
Word count: 50

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