`Elegija (Pushkin, set by N. Medtner) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Ljublju vash sumrak neizvestnyj
 i vashi tajnyje cvety;
 o vy, po`ezii prelestnoj
 blagoslovennyje mechty.

 Vy nas uverili, po`ety,
 chto teni legkoju tolpoj
 ot beregov kholodnoj Lety
 spuskajutsja na breg zemnoj.

 I nevidimo naveshchajut
 mesta gde bylo vse milej,
 i v snoviden'jakh uteshajut
 serdca pokinu tykh druzej.

 Oni, bessmertije vkushaja,
 ikh podzhidajut v `Elizej,
 kak zhdjot na pir sem'ja rodnaja
 svojikh zamedlivshikh gostej.

 No mozhet byt' mechty pustyje,
 byt' mozhet s rizoj grobovoj
 vse chuvstva broshu ja zemnyje
 i chuzhd mne budet mir zemnoj.

 Byt' mozhet tam gde vse blistajet
 netlennoj slavoj i krasoj,
 gde chistyj plamen' pozhirajet
 nesovershenstvo bytija,

 minutnykh zhizni vpechatlenij
 ne sokhranit dusha moja,
 ne budu vedat' sozhalenij,
 tosku ljubvi zabudu ja.

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Note on Transliteration

Authorship

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)

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

Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880-1951)

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