Le roi aux yeux gris | Gloire à toi, douleur sans espoir !

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by Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Сероглазый король

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: FRE

Слава тебе, безысходная боль!
Умер вчера сероглазый король.

Вечер осенний был душен и ал,
Муж мой, вернувшись, спокойно сказал:

«Знаешь, с охоты его принесли,
Тело у старого дуба нашли.

Жаль королеву. Такой молодой!..
За ночь одну она стала седой».

Трубку свою на камине нашёл
И на работу ночную ушёл.

Дочку мою я сейчас разбужу,
В серые глазки её погляжу.

А за окном шелестят тополя:
«Нет на земле твоего короля...»

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Text Authorship:

by Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966), "Сероглазый король", written 1910, appears in Вечер = Vecher (Evening), no. 28, first published 1912 [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 Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Сероглазый король" [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), "Сероглазый король", op. 27 no. 5 (1916), from Пять стихотворений Ахматовой (Pjat' stikhotvorenij Akhmatovoj) = Five poems by (Anna) Akhmatova, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

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FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Le roi aux yeux gris", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Le roi aux yeux gris

Language: French (Français) after the Russian (Русский)

Gloire à toi, douleur sans espoir !
Hier le roi aux yeux gris est mort.

Le soir d'automne était étouffant et rouge.
Mon mari, en revenant, dit calmement :

"Tu sais, ils l'ont ramené de la chasse,
Ils l'ont trouvé, son corps près d'un chêne.

C'est un malheur pour la reine. Il était si jeune !
En une soirée ses cheveux sont devenus gris."

Il prit sa pipe du foyer
Et sortit pour son travail de nuit.

Je réveille aussitôt ma fille,
Dans ses yeux gris je regarde.

Derrière la fenêtre les peupliers murmurent :
"Ton roi n'est plus sur cette terre."

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966), "Сероглазый король", written 1910, appears in Вечер = Vecher (Evening), no. 28, first published 1912
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This text was added to the website: 2009-08-21
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