Everything I had | The punishing God took everything I had

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by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803 - 1873)

Translation © by Carl Ratner

Всё отнял у меня казнящий Бог

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG FRE GER

Всё отнял у меня казнящий Бог, -
Здоровье, силу, воли, воздух, сон.
Одну тебя при мне оставил Он,
Чтоб я Ему ещё молиться мог.

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Text Authorship:

by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803 - 1873), no title, first published 1873 [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 Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), "Всё отнял у меня", op. 26 (Пятнадцать романсов = Pjatnadcat' romansov (Fifteen songs)) no. 2 (1906) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Valentin Vasilovich Silvestrov (b. 1937), "Всё отнял у меня казнящий Бог", 1974-1977 [ baritone and piano ], from Тихие песни, no. 21, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Carl Ratner) , "Everything I had", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Il m'a tout pris", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 4
Word count: 23

Everything I had

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

The punishing God took everything I had,
Health, strength, will, breath, sleep.
You alone He left to me
So that I might still pray to Him.

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803 - 1873), no title, first published 1873
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This text was added to the website: 2010-10-21
Line count: 4
Word count: 26