Text & Translation
Nochi bezumye 'Frenzied nights'
Russian source:
Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin
Reči nesvjaznye, vzory ustalye...
Noči, poslednim ognem ozarennye,
Oseni mërtvoj cvety zapozdalye!
Pustʹ daže vremja rukoj bespoščadnoju
Mne ukazalo, čto bylo v vas ložnogo,
Vsë že leču ja k vam pamjatʹju žadnoju,
V prošlom otveta išču nevozmožnogo...
Vkradčivym šepotom vy zaglušaete
Zvuki dnevnye, nesnosnye, šumnye...
V tihuju nočʹ vy moj son otgonjaete,
Noči bessonnye, noči bezumnye!
Frenzied nights
English translation ©
Philip Ross Bullock
Rambling conversations, tired gazes…
Nights lit by the dying light,
Dead autumn’s late-blooming flowers!
Even if time, with its unsparing hand,
Had revealed to me your falseness,
Still I fly to you with eager memory,
Seeking an impossible answer in the past…
Your ingratiating whisper stifles
The noisy, unbearable sounds of day…
In the silent night, you drive away my sleep,
Frenzied nights, sleepless nights.
Nochi bezumye 'Frenzied nights'
Russian source:
Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin
Frenzied nights
English source:
Philip Ross Bullock
Noči bezumnye, noči bessonnye,
Frenzied nights, sleepless nights,
Reči nesvjaznye, vzory ustalye...
Rambling conversations, tired gazes…
Noči, poslednim ognem ozarennye,
Nights lit by the dying light,
Oseni mërtvoj cvety zapozdalye!
Dead autumn’s late-blooming flowers!
Pustʹ daže vremja rukoj bespoščadnoju
Even if time, with its unsparing hand,
Mne ukazalo, čto bylo v vas ložnogo,
Had revealed to me your falseness,
Vsë že leču ja k vam pamjatʹju žadnoju,
Still I fly to you with eager memory,
V prošlom otveta išču nevozmožnogo...
Seeking an impossible answer in the past…
Vkradčivym šepotom vy zaglušaete
Your ingratiating whisper stifles
Zvuki dnevnye, nesnosnye, šumnye...
The noisy, unbearable sounds of day…
V tihuju nočʹ vy moj son otgonjaete,
In the silent night, you drive away my sleep,
Noči bessonnye, noči bezumnye!
Frenzied nights, sleepless nights.
Composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. His works are still among the most popular music in the classical repetoire, and he is widely acknowledged as the first Russian composer to make a lasting international…
Poet
Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin
Aleksey Nikolayevich Apukhtin was a Russian poet, writer and critic.