Как велит простая учтивость, Подошел ко мне. Улыбнулся, Полуласково, полулениво Поцелуем руки коснулся. И загадочных, древних ликов На меня поглядели очи... Десять лет замираний и криков, Все мои бессонные ночи Я вложила в тихое слово И сказала его напрасно. Отошел ты, и стало снова На душе и пусто и ясно.
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- by Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966), no title, written 1911-15, appears in Чётки = Chjotki, in Смятение = Smjatenije, no. 3 [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 Ekaterina Kouprovskaia-Denisova , "Как велит простая учтивость", 1988 [ voice and piano ], from Cinq mélodies d'après Anna Akhmatova, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Aleksandr Borisovich Matyukhin (b. 1947), "Как велит простая учтивость" [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2012-12-23
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