Kinzhal (Lermontov, set by A. Rubinstein, C. Cui) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Ljublju tebja, bulatnyj moj kinzhal,
Tovarishch svetlyj i kholodnyj.
Zadumchivyj gruzin na mest' tebja koval,
Na groznyj boj tochil cherkes svobodnyj.

[Lilejnaja]¹ ruka tebja mne podnesla
V znak pamjati v minutu rasstavan'ja,
I v pervyj raz ne krov' vdol' po tebe tekla,
No svetlaja sleza, zhemchuzhina stradan'ja.

I chjornyje glaza, ostanovjas' na mne,
Ispolneny tajistvennoj pechali,
Kak stal' tvoja pri trepetnom ogne,
To vdrug tuskneli, to sverkali.

Ty dan mne v sputniki, ljubvi zalog nemoj,
I stranniku v tebe primer ne bespoleznyj,
Da, ja ne izmenjus' i budu tverd dushoj,
Kak ty, kak ty, moj drug zheleznyj!

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¹ Cui: "Lilejcaja"

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Authorship

Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814-1841)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

César Antonovich Cui (1835-1918)

Sem' romansov

Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829-1894)

Zwölf Lieder aus dem Russischem von F. Bodenstedt

German

Set in German, a translation of Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819-1892) [text unavailable]

Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829-1894)

Zwölf Lieder aus dem Russischem von F. Bodenstedt

Russian

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