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Day after day

Language: English

Day after day he comes and goes away.
Go, and give him a flower from my hair, my friend.
If he asks who it was that sent it,
I entreat you do not tell him my name
For he only comes and goes away.

He sits on the dust under the tree.
Spread there a seat with flowers and leaves, my friend.
His eyes are sad, and they bring sadness to my heart.
He does not speak what he has in mind;
He only comes and goes away.


Input by Ted Perry

Authorship Based on

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

Set in Russian, a translation of Anonymous/Unidentified Artist RUS ENG ITA Set in Italian, adapted by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist RUS ENG ITA

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

O moj drug, vot cvetok

Language: Russian

O moj drug, vot cvetok iz pricheski mojej.
Ty jemu otnesi, kak otserdca privet!
No jesli sprosit tebja, kto cvetok `etot dal,
Proshu tebja, drug moj, ob `etom molchi...


Mne tak tjazhko i bol'no smotret' na nego...
Budto slov ne najdjot rasskazat' o sebe
I povedat' o tom, chto on nosit v dushe,
Kogda molcha prikhodit i snova ujdjot!



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Note on Transliteration

Authorship Based on Based on

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

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.