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by Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin (1872 - 1936)

Podrazhanije P. Luisu
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Ikh bylo chetvero v `etot mesjac,
no lish' odin byl tot, kogo ja ljubila.
Pervyj sovsem dlja menja razorilsja,
posylal kazhdyj chas novye podarki
i prodal poslednjuju mel'nicu, chtob kupit' mne zapjast'ja,
kotorye zvjakali, kogda ja pljasala, - zakololsja,
no on ne byl tot, kogo ja ljubila.

Vtoroj napisal v moju chest' tridcat' `elegij,
izvestnykh dazhe do Rima, gde govorilos',
chto moi shcheki - kak utrennije zori,
a kosy - kak polog nochi,
no on ne byl tot, kogo ja ljubila.

Tretij, akh, tretij byl tak prekrasen,
chto rodnaja sestra jego udushilas' kosoju
iz strakha v nego vljubit'sja;
on stojal den' i noch' u mojego poroga,
umoljaja, chtob ja skazala: "Pridi", - no ja molchala,
potomu chto on ne byl tot, kogo ja ljubila.

Ty zhe ne byl bogat, ne govoril pro zori i nochi,
ne byl krasiv,
i kogda na prazdnike Adonisa ja brosila tebe gvozdiku,
posmotrel ravnodushno svoimi svetlymi glazami,
no ty byl tot, kogo ja ljubila.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin (1872 - 1936), first published 1905-8? [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 Anatoly Nikolayevich Aleksandrov (1888 - 1982), "Подражание П. Луису", 1915-29 [voice and piano], from Iz Aleksandrijskikh pesen M. Kuzmina, no. 11. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-11-07
Line count: 23
Word count: 155

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