To Apollo

Golden Apollo, that thro' heaven wide
Scatter'st the rays of light, and truth's beams!
In lucent words my darkling verses dight,
And wash my earthy mind in thy clear streams,
That wisdom may descend in fairy dreams:       
All while the jocund hours in thy train
Scatter their fancies at thy poet's feet;
And when thou yields to night thy wide domain,  
Let rays of truth enlight his sleeping brain.

by William Blake (1757-1827) , no title, the initial fragment of the poem "An Imitation to Spenser"

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

by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948-) , "To Apollo", op. 32 no. 1, published 1981, rev. 2003, first performed 1986 [voice and organ], from Fearful symmetry, no. 1.
by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948-) , "To Apollo", op. 32a no. 1, published 1981, rev. 2003, first performed 1986 [voice and piano], from Fearful symmetry, no. 1.

RUS Russian [singable] (Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov)

Date added to the website: 2008-01-23.

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Apollonu

Luchistoj pravdy svetlye potoki
    Razlej po nebu, Apollon zlatoj,
Nejasnye moji rasputaj stroki
    Zemnoj moj um v ruch'e nebes umoj,
    Vo sne volshebnom mudrost' mne raskroj,
I udaljajas' v tjomnye vladen'ja,
    Daruj po`etu shchedroju rukoj
Chasy kipuchego voobrazhen'ja
I pravdoj ozari moji viden'ja.

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Note on Transliteration

Singable translation by Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (1948-) , "Apollonu", copyright © 1981, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

a text in English by William Blake (1757-1827) , no title, the initial fragment of the poem "An Imitation to Spenser"

Date added to the website: 2008-01-23.