Дуют ветры, 
ветры буйные,
Ходят тучи, 
[тучи]1 тёмные.

Не видать в них 
света белого,
Не видать в них 
солнца красного.

Во сырой [мгле]2, 
за туманами,
Только ночка, 
лишь чернеется —

В эту пору 
непогожую
Одному жить —
сердцу холодно.

Грудь другую
Ему надобно:
Огонь-душу —
Красну девицу!

С ней зимою —
Лето тёплое;
При бездольи —
Горе — не горе!

R. Glière sets stanzas 1-4
M. Musorgsky sets stanzas 1-3, 1-2

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¹ Gliere, Musorgsky: "ходят тучи" (khodjat tuchi)
² Gliere, Musorgsky: "во мгле" (vo mgle)

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Text Authorship:

• by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842) [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 Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875 - 1956), "Дуют ветры", op. 63 (Двенадцать романсов (Dvenadcat' romansov) = Twelve Romances) no. 1, stanzas 1-4 [sung text checked 2 times]
• by Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839 - 1881), "Дуют ветры, ветры буйные", 1864, published 1911, stanzas 1-3,1-2 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829 - 1894), "Дуют ветры", op. 27 (Devjat' romansy = Neun Lieder von Kolzoff) no. 9, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by August von Viedert ; composed by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English [singable] (Constance Bache) (William Stigand, né Stigant) , "Longings"
• ENG English (Jennifer Gliere) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Frieder Anders) , "Es pfeift der Wind", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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