Stansy (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)


Vot mesto tajnogo svidan'ja,
Ja zdes', krasavica, davno!
Gljazhu, ispolnen ozhidan'ja
na raznocvetnoje okno.

Vot svet potukh. Stopoj trevozhnoj
ona idjot v nemoj tishi
tak trepetno, tak ostorozhno;
speshi, krasavica, speshi!

No v zharkij vozdukh juzhnoj nochi
ty ne gljadi - on ne pridjot,
tvoji toskujushchije ochi vot
`eto telo prizovjot.

Skorej! jeshchjo trup milyj dyshit,
jeshchjo kinzhal moj ne obsokh;
tvoj nezhnyj drug jeshchjo uslyshit
jemu otradnyj vzdokh!

Skorej zhe, deva - vse gotovo,
ja budu skor, kak bozhij grom.
Odno jazvitel'noje slovo, 
jeshchjo udar, i ja otmshchjon!

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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)

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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