В тёмной [чаще]1 замолк соловей,
прокатилась [звезда в синеве]2;
месяц смотрит сквозь [сетку]3 ветвей,
зажигает росу на траве.

Дремлют розы. Прохлада плывет.
Кто-то свистнул... Вет замер и свист
Ухо слышит, едва, упадет 
Насекомым подточенный лист.

Как при месяце кроток и тих
у тебя милый очерк лица!
Эту ночь, полный грез золотых
я б продлил без конца, без конца!

N. Rimsky-Korsakov sets stanzas 1, 3

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¹ Gretchaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov: "роще" ("roshche")
² Rimsky-Korsakov: "по небу звезда" ("po nebu zvezda")
³ Gretchaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov: "чашу" ("chashu")

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• by Ivan Savvich Nikitin (1824 - 1861), no title [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 Sergey Grigoryevich Grasgof (b. 1881), "В тёмной роще замолк соловей" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "В тёмной роще замолк соловей", op. 20 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 2, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in French (Français) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Boleslav Viktorovich Grodzky (1865 - 1923), "В тёмной чаще", op. 13 no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mikhail Mikhailovich Ivanov (1849 - 1927), "В тёмной роще замолк соловей" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gennady Osipovich Korganov (1858 - 1890), "В тёмной чаще замолк соловей", op. 19 (Четыре романса) no. 4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), "В тёмной роще замолк соловей", op. 4 (Четыре романса (Chetyre romansa)) no. 3 (1866), stanzas 1,3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "В тёмной чаще замолк соловей", op. 1 (Zwölf Romanzen für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung = 12 Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 4, published 1887 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Vladimir Timofeyevich Sokolov (1830 - 1890), "В тёмной роще замолк соловей" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov (1872 - 1964), "Notturno", op. 1 (4 романса для высокаго голоса с сопровождением фортепиано (4 romansa dlja vysokago golosa s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano)) no. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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• Also set in English, a translation by Th Baker ; composed by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov.
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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by (Victor) Felix von Dwelshauvers-Déry (1869 - 1915) and by A. de Gourghenbekoff ; composed by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov.
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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi (1877 - 1944) ; composed by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov.
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• ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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No more carols the sweet nightingale
Stars are gleaming on high o'er the vale
And the moonbeams that peer thro' the trees
Set the dewdrops alight on the leas.
Cool and restful, night lulls all around
Was't a whisper ? No there's not a sound;
It was only a leaf falling here
At my feet, that arrested mine ear
There's a spell to the Spring night unknown 
in my charm, my beloved, my own !
Ah ! fair night, fairer dream, now delay !
Why, O why must you e'ver fade away ?