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by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925)

Otgovorila roshha zolotaya
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Otgovorila roshha zolotaya
Berezovy'm, vesely'm yazy'kom,
I zhuravli, pechal`no proletaya,
Uzh ne zhaleyut bol`she ni o kom. 

Kogo zhalet`? Ved` kazhdy'j v mire strannik -
Projdyot, zajdyot i vnov` pokinet dom. 
O vsex ushedshix grezit konoplyanik
S shirokim mesyacem nad goluby'm prudom. 

Stoyu odin sredi ravniny' goloj,
A zhuravlej otnosit vetrom v dal`,
YA polon dum o yunosti veseloj,
No nichego v proshedshem mne ne zhal`. 

Ne zhal` mne let, rastrachenny'x naprasno,
Ne zhal` dushi sirenevuyu czvet`. 
V sadu gorit koster ryabiny' krasnoj,
No nikogo ne mozhet on sogret`. 

Ne obgoryat ryabinovy'e kisti,
Ot zheltizny' ne propadet trava,
Kak derevo ronyaet tixo list`ya,
Tak ya ronyayu grustny'e slova. 

I esli vremya, vetrom razmetaya,
Sgrebet ix vse v odin nenuzhny'j kom... 
Skazhite tak... chto roshha zolotaya
Otgovorila mily'm yazy'kom.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925), no title, first published 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 Aleksandr Vasil'yevich Mosolov (1900 - 1973), "Отговорила роща золотая" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Grigory Fedorovich Ponomarenko (1921 - 1996), "Отговорила роща золотая" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Valentin Vasilovich Silvestrov (b. 1937), "Осенняя песня", 1974-1977 [ baritone and piano ], from Тихие песни, no. 14, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 127

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