Chto v imeni tebe mojom?

Chto v imeni tebe mojom?
Ono umrjot, kak [shum]1 pechal'nyj
Volny, plesnuvshej v bereg dal'nij,
Kak zvuk nochnoj v lesu glukhom.

[ Ono na pamjatnom listke
Ostavit mjortvyj sled, podobnyj
Uzoru nadpisi nadgrobnoj
Na neponjatnom jazyke.]2

Chto v njom? Zabytoje davno
V [volnen'jakh]3 novykh i mjatezhnykh,
Tvojej dushe ne dast ono
Vospominanij [chistykh]4 nezhnykh.

No v [den']5 pechali, v tishine,
Projiznesi jego toskuja;
Skazhi: jest' pamjat' obo mne,
Jest' v mire serdce, gde zhivu ja...

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Note on Transliteration

by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) , 1830, published 1830

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

by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev (1787-1851) , "Chto v imeni tebe mojom?", published 1834.
by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880-1951) , "Chto v imeni tebe mojom?", op. 61 no. 3.
by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) , "Chto v imeni tebe mojom?", op. 4 (Chetyre romansa) no. 1 (1866).
by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906-1975) , "Chto v imeni tebe mojom?", op. 91 (Chetyre Monologa) no. 2, from Chetyre Monologa
by Nikolai Sergeyevich Titov (1798-1843) , "Chto v imeni tebe mojom?", published 1834.

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