В молчаньи ночи тайной | О, долго буду я, в молчаньи ночи тайной

by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892)

O, dolgo budu ya, v molchan`i nochi tajnoj

Language: Russian (Русский)

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O, dolgo budu ya, v molchan`i nochi tajnoj,
Kovarny'j lepet tvoj, uly'bku, vzor sluchajny'j,
Perstam poslushnuyu [volos]¹ gustuyu pryad`,
Iz my'slej izgonyat`, i snova prizy'vat`;
Dy'sha pory'visto, odin, nikem ne zrimy'j,
Dosady' i sty'da rumyanami palimy'j,
Iskat` xotya odnoj zagadochnoj cherty'
V slovax, kotory'e proiznosila ty';
Sheptat` i popravlyat` by'ly'e vy'razhen`ya
Rechej moix s toboj, ispolnenny'x smushhen`ya,
I v op`yanenii, naperekor umu,
Zavetny'm imenem budit` nochnuyu [mglu]².

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¹ Rachmaninov: "волос, волос твоих" ("volos, volos tvojikh")
² Rachmaninov: "тьму" ("t'mu")

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Text Authorship:

by Afanasy Afanas'yevich Fet (1820 - 1892), no title, first published 1844 [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 Boris Aleksandrovich Fitingof-Shel (1829 - 1901), "О, долго буду я", 1878 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Georgy Eduardovich Konyus (1862 - 1933), "В молчаньи ночи тайной", op. 9 no. 2 [ voice and piano ], from 6 Романсов на стихотворения А. Фета, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev (1878 - 1942), "О, долго буду я", 1905 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "В молчаньи ночи тайной", op. 4 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six songs) ) no. 3, lines 1-4,9-12 [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 70