Pojmi khot' raz tosklivoje priznan'e,
Khot' raz uslysh' dushi moljashchej ston!
Ja pred toboj, prekrasnoje sozdan'e,
Bezvestnykh sil dykhan'em okryljon.

Ja obraz tvoj lovlju pered razlukoj,
Ja polon im, [i mleju, i]1 drozhu, -
I, bez tebja tomjas' predsmertnoj mukoj,
Svojej toskoj, kak schast'em, dorozhu.

[Jejo poju]2, vo prakh upast' gotovyj,
Ty predo mnoj stoish', kak bozhestvo --
I ja blazhen: ja v kazhdoj muke novoj
Tvojej krasy predvizhu torzhestvo.

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¹ Tchaikovsky: "немею и дрожу" ("nemeju i drozhu")
² Tchaikovsky: "Пою её" ("Poju jejo")

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Text Authorship:

• by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), "Anruf an die geliebte Бетховена", written 1857 [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 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Пойми хоть раз", op. 16 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 3 (1872) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Sofya Aleksandrovna Zybina (d. 1897), "Пойми хоть раз тоскливое признанье", 1880 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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