No one listens to me ... I am alone

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by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)

Translation © by Dmitri Smirnov

Никто моим словам не внемлет... я один

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG

Никто моим словам не внемлет... я один.
День гаснет... красными рисуясь полосами,
На запад уклонились тучи, и камин
Трещит передо мной. -- Я полон весь мечтами,
О будущем... и дни мои толпой
Однообразною проходят предо мной,
И тщетно я ищу смущенными очами
Меж них хоть день один, отмеченный судьбой!

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Text Authorship:

by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), no title, first published 1836-7 [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 Albert Semyonovich Leman (1915 - 1998), "Никто моим словам не внемлет" [sung text not yet checked]
by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948 - 2020), "Одиночество", op. 153 no. 4, published 2008 [ voice and cello ], from Odinokij strannik, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Yury Pavlovich Yefimov (b. 1923), "Никто моим словам не внемлет" [sung text not yet checked]

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ENG English (Dmitri Smirnov) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Dmitri Smirnov

This text was added to the website: 2009-11-02
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Word count: 48

No one listens to me ... I am alone

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

No one listens to me ... I am alone.
Day goes out ... the red strips of clouds,
Come to the West, and the fireplace
Is snapping before me. -- I am filled by dreams
About the future... and my days as a crowd
Pass monotonously in front of me,
And vainly I search with my confused eyes
Any day among them marked by fate.

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Translation of title "Одиночество" = "Loneliness"

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), no title, first published 1836-7
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This text was added to the website: 2009-11-02
Line count: 8
Word count: 62