Le poète

Pourquoi mon coeur bat-il si vite?
Qu'ai-je donc en moi qui s'agite
Dont je me sens épouvanté?
Ne frappe-t-on pas à ma porte?
Pourquoi ma lampe à demi morte
M'éblouit-elle de clarté?
Dieu puissant! tout mon corps frissonne.
Qui vient? qui m'appelle? -- Personne.
Je suis seul, c'est l'heure qui sonne;
Ô solitude! ô pauvreté!

by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) , "Le poète", from Poésies nouvelles, in La Nuit de Mai

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

[ None yet in the database ]

by Vasily Pavlovich Kalafati (1869-1942) , "Chto tak usilenno serdce", op. 2 (Chetyre romansa) no. 1, published <<1895. [voice and piano]
by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873-1943) , "Otryvok iz A. Mjusse", op. 21 no. 6 (1902).

Date added to the website: 2006-10-19.

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Chto tak usilenno serdce bol'noje

Chto tak usilenno serdce bol'noje
B'jotsja, i prosit, i zhazhdet pokoja?
Chem ja vzvolnovan ispugan v nochi?
Stuknula dver' zastonav i zanoja.
Gasnushchej lampy blesnuli luchi...
Bozhe moj. Dukh mne v grudi zakhvatilo!
Kto-to zovjot menja, shepchet unylo...
Kto-to voshjol...? Moja kel'ja pusta,
Net nikogo, `eto polnoch' probilo...
O, odinochestvo, o nishcheta!

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Note on Transliteration

by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841-1893)

a text in French by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) , "Le poète", from Poésies nouvelles, in La Nuit de Mai

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

by Vasily Pavlovich Kalafati (1869-1942) , "Chto tak usilenno serdce", op. 2 (Chetyre romansa) no. 1, published <<1895. [voice and piano]
by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873-1943) , "Otryvok iz A. Mjusse", op. 21 no. 6 (1902).

ENG English (unknown or anonymous translator)

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.