Berceuse | Dors, mon enfant, endors-toi

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by Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (1821 - 1897)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Колыбельная песня

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: DUT ENG FRE

Спи, дитя моё, [усни]¹!
Сладкий сон к себе мани:
В няньки я тебе взяла
Ветер, солнце и орла.

Улетел орёл домой;
Солнце скрылось под водой:
Ветер, после трех ночей,
Мчится к матери своей.

[Ветра спрашивает]² мать:
«Где изволил пропадать?
Али звезды воевал?
Али волны всё гонял?»

«Не гонял я волн морских,
Звезд не трогал золотых;
Я дитя оберегал,
Колыбелочку качал!»

Спи, дитя моё, спи, усни! спи, усни!
Сладкий сон к себе мани:
В няньки я тебе взяла
Ветер, солнце и орла.

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• P. Tchaikovsky

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¹ Tchaikovsky: "спи, усни! Спи, усни!" ("spi, usni! Spi, usni!")
² Tchaikovsky: "Спрашивала ветра" ("Sprashivala vetra")

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Text Authorship:

by Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (1821 - 1897), "Колыбельная песня", written 1860, appears in Новогреческие песни (Novogrecheskije pesni), no. 1 [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 Nikolay Yakovlevich Afanasyev (1821 - 1898), "Колыбельная песня" [sung text not yet checked]
by Fyodor Stepanovich Akimenko (1876 - 1945), "Колыбельная песня", op. 1 (4 Romansa s soprovozhdeniem fortepiano (4 Романса с сопровождением фортепиано) = Vier Romanzen für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung ) no. 3, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Колыбельная песня", op. 16 (Шесть романсов = Shest' romansov (Six romances)) no. 1 (1872) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Sonja Van Lier) , "Wiegenlied", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Laura Claycomb) (Peter Grunberg) , "Lullaby", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Berceuse", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bruno Tutenberg) , "Wiegenlied"

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 83

Berceuse

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

Dors, mon enfant, endors-toi,
Attire de doux rêves ;
J'ai pris pour toi des nurses,
Le vent, le soleil et l'aigle.

L'aigle s'est envolé vers la maison,
Le soleil s'est caché sous les eaux,
Le vent, après trois nuits,
Se précipite vers sa mère,

La mère demande au vent :
« Où avais-tu disparu ?
T'es-tu battu avec les étoiles ?
As-tu chassé les vagues ? »

« Je n'ai pas chassé les vagues de la mer,
Je n'ai pas touché aux étoiles dorées ;
Je veillais sur l'enfant,
Et berçais son petit berceau ! »

Dors, mon enfant, dors, endors-toi ! dors, endors-toi !
Attire de doux rêves ;
J'ai pris pour toi des nurses,
Le vent, le soleil et l'aigle.

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (1821 - 1897), "Колыбельная песня", written 1860, appears in Новогреческие песни (Novogrecheskije pesni), no. 1
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This text was added to the website: 2013-03-30
Line count: 20
Word count: 112