Poputnaja pesnja (Kukol'nik, set by M. Glinka) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Dym stolbom kipit, dymitsja parokhod!
Pestrota, razgul, volnen'je, ozhidan'je, neterpen'je!
[Veselitsja i likujet ves']¹ narod.
I bystreje, shibche voli pojezd mchitsja v chistom pole.

Net, tajnaja duma bystreje letit,
I serdce mgnoven'ja schitaja stuchit.
Kovarnyje dumy mel'kajut dorogoj,
I shepchesh' nevol'no:
Kak dolgo, kak dolgo?

Ne vozdukh, ne zelen' stradal'ca manjat.
Tam jasnyje ochi tak jarko gorjat.
Tak polnyj blazhenstva minuty svidan'ja,
Tak sladki nadezhdoj chasy rasstavan'ja.

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¹ or "Pravoslavny veselitsja nash"

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Authorship

Nestor Vasil'yevich Kukol'nik (1809-1868)

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

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857)

Proshchanije S. Peterburgom

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