Submissions by Lehrman, Leonard ( 57 items: 43 texts and 14 translations )

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Translations of entire song cycles (alphabetic order):

• Пять сатир = Pjat' satir: Five satires

Texts and Translations

• There's a lodger seated on a suitcase; title: "Kreutzer Sonata" [translation of: Крейцерова Соната | Квартирант сидит на чемодане]
• She was a famous writer; title: "A misunderstanding" [translation of: Недоразумение | Она была поэтесса]
• Our predecessors, rattling; title: "Descendants" [translation of: Потомки | Наши предки лезли в клети]
• My tomcat's looking at my calendar; title: "The awakening of spring" [translation of: Пробуждение весны | Вчера мой кот взглянул на календарь]
• A poet was describing a lady. I cite; title: "To a critic" [translation of: Критику | Когда поэт, описивая даму, начнёт]
• Arise, my darling, day is breaking!; title: "Winter morning"
• As sweetest melodies it breezes; title: "Like melodies" [translation of: Wie Melodien zieht es mir | Wie Melodien zieht es]
• Wenn du mich einmal nicht mehr liebst; title: "Liebeslied"
• White-sailed boat upon the ocean [translation of: Schifflein | Schifflein mit dem weissen Segel]
• Schifflein mit dem weissen Segel; title: "Schifflein"
• Songless and oppressed was I; title: "Songless was I" [translation of: Gesanglos war ich und beklommen | Gesanglos war ich und beklommen]
• As the breath of God flutters through His fields; title: "To a wrinkle" [translation of: An eine Falte | Wie Gottes Athem seine Fluren fächelt]
• I see your image, when the breath of dawn; title: "I see your image" [translation of: Я вижу образ | Я вижу образ твой, когда зари дыханье]
• Gone is the gloomy separation; title: "First reunion" [translation of: Первое свидание | Вот миновала разлука унылая]
• Passion spent, the fervor of its frenzy; title: "Passion spent" [translation of: Минула страсть | Минула страсть, и пыл её тревожный]
• Il faut chercher la discipline dans la liberté; title: "Monsieur Croche à la Boulangerie"
• Albeit the Venice girls get praise; title: "Ballad of the women of Paris"
• One must seek discipline in freedom [translation of: Monsieur Croche à la Boulangerie | Il faut chercher la discipline dans la liberté]
• Shtil, di nakht iz oysgeshternt; title: "Shtil di nakht"
• Often I have said to my husband: Shall we get one?; title: "Often I have said to my husband" [translation of: Souvent j'ai dit à mon mari | Souvent j'ai dit à mon mari: Nous en prenons un?]
• O move in me, my darling, for now the sun must rise; title: "Woman's song"
• It has been many years since the maestro resplendent in velvet opera cape; title: "My song"
• You know French perfectly; title: "My university"
• And as the Rhine Bridge hove in view
• My friends, don't be offended now
• (Duet)
• All that took place upon that night
• The goddess made me a pot of tea
• I bored around an hour or so until
• The French and the Russians control the land
• And then my dear mother caught sight of me; title: "At mother's"
• The stony-faced houses staring at me
• One dull, dreary day in November 'twas
• We Jews divide into groups once more; title: "We Jews"
• What she reveal'd I cannot relate
• And when I came to the docks that night
• While up above you could hear
• My friends, I hereby bid of you a song
• Be quiet, Sir! Begone, I say!; title: "The cautious struggle"
• Growing growing; title: "Growing"
• Lincoln was a long man. He liked the out of doors; title: "Abraham Lincoln"
• I hear Abe Lincoln's going away; title: "Anne Rutledge"
• Out of the North Paul Bunyan blew; title: "Paul Bunyan"
• Mama remembers the four-leaf clover; title: "Childhood Memories"
• Norma, this morning, along the roadside through the valley; title: "No rose need ask"
• My luck is bad, my teacher's mad; title: "Floatin' down the river"
• Have you a question; title: "Have you a question?"
• Look at the rain it's raining; title: "Rain"
• I am thoroughly disconcerted by your long conversations; title: "May I escape?"
• Get up get up good morning again; title: "Good morning"
• What did you do outside today?; title: "What did you do today?"
• I point out the windows; title: "Saying Good Night"
• Goodbye goodbye; title: "Goodbye, Goodbye"
• It's a lazy afternoon; title: "Lazy afternoon"
• Sweet Isabella met a new caballero; title: "Isabella's Broom Dance (Sweeping Dance)"
• As I was goin' along; title: "As I was goin' along"
• Johnny Appleseed! Johnny Appleseed!; title: "Johnny Appleseed"

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