Valse | Comment puis-je oublier ce doux moment

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by Anton Antonovich Delvig (1798 - 1831)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Вальс

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: FRE

Могу ль забыть то сладкое мгновенье,
Когда я вами жил и видел только вас,
И вальса в бешеном круженье
Завидовал свободе дерзких глаз.
Я умолял: постой, чудесное мгновенье,
Вели, чтоб быстрый вальс вертелся не вертясь,
Чтоб я не опускал с прелестной вечно глаз,
И чтоб забвение крылом одело нас...

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Text Authorship:

by Anton Antonovich Delvig (1798 - 1831) [author's text not yet checked 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 Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Вальс", op. 32 (Шесть стихотворений (Shest' stikhotvorenij)) no. 5 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Valse", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 49

Valse

Language: French (Français) after the Russian (Русский)

Comment puis-je oublier ce doux moment
Où je vivais près de toi et ne regardais que toi,
Et dans le tourbillon sauvage d'une valse
J'enviais la liberté de tes yeux audacieux.
Je suppliais : arrête-toi, moment merveilleux,
Fais que cette valse rapide tourne sans tourner
Pour que je n'ai jamais à détourner mon regard de sa beauté,
Et que l'aile de l'oubli nous recouvre.

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This text was added to the website: 2013-03-28
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Word count: 63