by Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953)
Zvëzdy noč'ju vesennej nežnee
Language: Russian (Русский)
Our translations: CHI
Zvëzdy noč'ju vesennej nežnee, Solov'i ostorožnej pojut... JA ljublju ėti tëmnye noči, Ėti zvëzdy, i klëny, i prud. Ty, kak zvëzdy, čista i prekrasna... Radost' žizni vo vsem ja lovlju: V zvezdnom nebe, v cvetach, v aromatach... No tebja ja nežnee ljublju. Liš' s toboju [odnoju ja sčastliv]1, I tebja ne zamenit [nikto]2: Ty odna menja znaeš' i ljubiš' I odna ponimaeš' -- za čto!
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Glière: "я счастлив как в дестве" ("ja schastliv kak v detstve")
2 Glière: "ничто" ("nichto")
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Text Authorship:
- by Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953), no title, written 1898 [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), "Звёзды ночью весенней", op. 18 (Восемь романсов (Vosem' romansov) = Eight Romances) no. 3 (1904) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Boris Vladimirovich Podgoretsky (1873 - 1919), "Звёзды ночью" [sung text not yet checked]
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- CHI Chinese (中文) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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