Angel (Polonsky, set by S. Taneyev) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Ljubil ja tikhij svet lampady zolotoj,
 blagogovejnoje vokrug nejo molchan'je...
 I tajnogo ispolnen ozhidan'ja,
 kak chasto ja, otkinuv polog svoj,
 ne spal, na mjagkij pukh oblokotjas' rukoju,
 i dumal: v `etu noch' khranitel'-angel moj
 prijdjot li v tishine besedovat' so mnoju?
 I mnilos' mne: na lozhe, bliz menja,
 v sijan'ji trepetnom lampadnogo otnja,
 v blednoserebrjanom sidel on odejan'je...
 I tikho, shopotom ja poverjal jemu
 i mysli, detskomu dostupnyje umu,
 i serdcu detskomu dostupnyje zhelan'ja.
 Mne sladok byl pokoj v jego luchakh;
 ja ves' proniknut byl bozhestvennoju siloj.
 S ulybkoju na plamennykh ustakh
 zadumchivo vnimal mne svetlokrylyj;
 no ochi krotkije jego gljadeli v dal',
 oni grjadushcheje v dushe mojej chitali,
 i otrazhalas' v nikh kakaja-to pechal'...
 I angel govoril: Ditja, tebja mne zhal'.
 Ditja, ditja, pojmjosh' li ty slova mojej pechali?
 Dushoj mladencheskoj ja ikh ne ponimal,
 kraja odezhd jego lovil i celoval
 i sljozy radosti v ochakh mojikh sverkali.

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Authorship

Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (1819-1898)

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

Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856-1915)

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