Tebe l' oplakivat' (Batyushkov, set by C. Cui) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Tebe l' oplakivat' utratu junykh dnej?
     Ty v krasote ne izmenilas'
           I dlja ljubvi mojej
Ot vremeni jeshchjo prelestneje javilas'.
Tvoj drug ne dorozhit neopytnoj krasoj,
Nezreloj v tainstvakh ljubovnogo iskusstva.
Bez zhizni vzor jejo - stydlivyj i nemoj,
     I robkij poceluj bez chuvstva.
     No ty, vladychica ljubvi,
     Ty strast' vdokhnesh' i v mertvyj kamen';
I v osen' dnej tvoikh ne pogasajet plamen',
      Tekushchij s zhizniju v krovi.

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Authorship

Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov (1787-1855)

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

César Antonovich Cui (1835-1918)

Shest' Romansov (6 Mélodies)

French

Set in French, a translation of J. Sergennois FRE

César Antonovich Cui (1835-1918)

Shest' Romansov (6 Mélodies)

Russian

Date added to the website: 2009-09-14.

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