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Я тебе ничего не скажу [и]1 тебя не встревожу ничуть, и о том, что я молча твержу, не решусь ни за что намекнуть. Целый день спят ночные цветы, но, лишь солнце за [рощи]2 зайдёт, [раскрываются тихо листы,]3 и я слышу, как сердце цветёт... И в больную, усталую грудь веет влагой ночной... Я дрожу... Я тебя не встревожу ничуть, я тебе ничего не скажу!
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View original text (without footnotes)First published in Vestnik Evropy, 1886 as "Романс".
1 Tolstaya: "Я" ("Ja")2 Rachmaninov: "тучи" ("tuchi")
3 Tolstaya: "Открываются тихо мечты" ("Otkryvajutsja tikho mechty")
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Note on TransliterationsText Authorship:
- by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), "Романс", written 1885, first published 1886 [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 Arseny Nikolayevich Koreshchenko (1870 - 1921), "Я тебе ничего не скажу", op. 2 (Романсы и Песни) no. 1, published 1893 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gennady Osipovich Korganov (1858 - 1890), "Я тебе ничего не скажу" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Lippold (1845 - 1910), "Я тебе ничего не скажу" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Я тебе ничего не скажу" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mikhail Nikolayevich Ofrosimov (b. 1840), "Я тебе ничего не скажу" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Я тебе ничего не скажу" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Я тебе ничего не скажу", op. 60 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve romances) = Zwölf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung) no. 2 (1886), also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Tatyana Konstantinovna Tolstaya (1862 - 1918), as Tatyana Tolstaya, "Я тебе ничего не скажу" [sung text checked 1 time]
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Anton Bespalov) (Rianne Stam) , "I will say nothing to you", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 66
I will say nothing to you and will not disturb you at all And what I kept repeating to myself I will not dare hint at. All day long the nightly flowers sleep Yet the sun has but to disappear behind a cloud, and they softly enfold their petals And I listen, how the heart flushes and the painful, weary chest is refreshed by the nocturnal moisture... I tremble... I will not disturb you at all, I will say nothing to you!
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- Translation from Russian (Русский) to English copyright © by Anton Bespalov and Rianne Stam, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in Russian (Русский) by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), "Романс", written 1885, first published 1886
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 82