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by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925)

Nikogda ya ne by'l na Bosfore
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Nikogda ya ne by'l na Bosfore,
Ty' menya ne sprashivaj o nem.
YA v tvoix glazax uvidel more,
Poly'xayushhee goluby'm ognem.

Ne xodil v Bagdad ya s karavanom,
Ne vozil ya shelk tuda i xnu.
Naklonis` svoim krasivy'm stanom,
Na kolenyax daj mne otdoxnut`.

Ili snova, skol`ko ni prosi ya,
Dlya tebya naveki dela net,
Chto v dalekom imeni — Rossiya —
YA izvestny'j, priznanny'j poe`t.

U menya v dushe zvenit tal`yanka,
Pri lune sobachij sly'shu laj.
Razve ty' ne xochesh`, persiyanka,
Uvidat` dalekij, sinij kraj?

YA syuda priexal ne ot skuki —
Ty' menya, nezrimaya, zvala.
I menya tvoi lebyazh`i ruki
Obvivali, slovno dva kry'la.

YA davno ishhu v sud`be pokoya,
I xot` proshloj zhizni ne klyanu,
Rasskazhi mne chto-nibud` takoe
Pro tvoyu veseluyu stranu.

Zaglushi v dushe tosku tal`yanki,
Napoi dy'xan`em svezhix char,
Chtoby' ya o dal`nej severyanke
Ne vzdy'xal, ne dumal, ne skuchal.

I xotya ya ne by'l na Bosfore —
YA tebe pridumayu o nem.
Vse ravno — glaza tvoi, kak more,
Goluby'm koly'shutsya ognem.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925), no title, written 1924 [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 Grigory Fedorovich Ponomarenko (1921 - 1996), "Никогда я не был на Босфоре" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-08-22
Line count: 32
Word count: 169

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