Winter song | The winter sings -- it halloos

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by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925)

Translation © by Leslie Crabtree (b. 1941)

Поёт зима ‑ аукает

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: CHI

Поёт зима - аукает,
Мохнатый лес баюкает
   Стозвоном сосняка.
Кругом с тоской глубокою
Плывут в страну далекую
   Седые облака.

А по двору метелица
Ковром шелковым стелется,
   Но больно холодна.
Воробышки игривые,
Как детки сиротливые,
   Прижались у окна. 

Озябли пташки малые,
Голодные, усталые,
   И жмутся поплотней.
А вьюга с ревом бешеным
Стучит по ставням свешенным
   И злится все сильней. 

И дремлют пташки нежные
Под эти вихри снежные
   У мерзлого окна.
И снится им прекрасная,
В улыбках солнца ясная
   Красавица весна.

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by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925), 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 Leslie Crabtree (b. 1941), "Зимняя песнь", 2008 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Georgiy Vasil'yevich Sviridov (1915 - 1998), "Поёт зима - аукает", from Поэма памяти Сергея Есенина (Po`ema pamjati Sergeja Jesenina), no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Leslie Crabtree) , "Winter song", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Leslie Crabtree

This text was added to the website: 2011-04-13
Line count: 24
Word count: 78

Winter song

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

The winter sings -- it halloos,
It sings a lullaby to the furry forest
  With a hundred chimes of pines.
All around, in deep melancholy,
Float towards a country far away
  The grey clouds.

And in the yard a little storm
Spreads a silken cover,
  But oh such cold!
Little playful sparrows,
Like orphaned children,
  Press against the window.

The little birds are freezing,
Hungry, tired,
  And huddle close together.
And the blizzard furiously howling
Bangs on the closed shutters
  And roars ever more strongly.

But the tender little birds are slumbering,
Beneath this snowy whirlwind,
  Beside the frozen window.
And they're having a wonderful dream
Of the sun brightly shining
  On the lovely lady, Spring.

Text Authorship:

by Leslie Crabtree (b. 1941), "Winter song", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Russian (Русский) by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925), no title
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-04-30
Line count: 24
Word count: 115