Identification of Balmont poem

[Geoffrey Chew]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Edward M Dumanis wrote:

> Could you translate the beginning of the Czech version into English?
>
> > For an edition I'm preparing of Czech song cycles, one of the texts is a
> > translation by the Czech poet Petr Kricka of a poem by Konstantin
> > Dmitrievich Balmont; I shall need to identify and see the Russian
> > original. Can anyone help in identifying it and giving me a reference to a
> > reliable edition of the text?  In translation the poem is entitled "Pres
> > daleka more" ("Over distant seas") and begins "Z kraji, slunce kde hori, /
> > pres sedmery bor / a pres sedmero mori / a sedmero hor ..."

Here's a rough translation of the whole thing:

"From the land where the sun burns,
over sevenfold pine forests
and over sevenfold seas
and sevenfold mountains,
I shall bring an embrace of blossoms
into your little chamber,
there I shall kiss and kiss you
and I shall pamper you with my grace.
Then, until the moon pales
and until the blushing day
rises from the bed of love,
faint with voluptuousness,
you will sway like a melancholy shadow,
you will grasp longing;
blushing, the whole day,
you will call me to mind."

 Geoffrey Chew
 Music Department, Royal Holloway, University of London
 Internet: chew at sun.rhul.ac.uk

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