by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas (1814 - 1875)
Qu’elles sont belles, ces verdures qui...
Language: French (Français)  after the Persian (Farsi)
Qu’elles sont belles, ces verdures qui croissent aux bords des ruisseaux ! On dirait qu’elles ont pris naissance sur les lèvres d’une angélique beauté. Ne pose donc pas sur elles ton pied avec dédain, puisqu’elles proviennent du germe de la poussière d’un visage coloré du teint de la tulipe.
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Confirmed with Les Quatrains de Khèyam, traduits de Persan par J. B. Nicolas, Paris, imprimé par ordre de l'Empereur à l'Imprimerie Impériale, 1867, page 32.
Text Authorship:
- by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas (1814 - 1875), no title, appears in Les Quatrains de Khèyam, no. 59, first published 1867 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Germain Desbonnet (1938 - 2007), "Qu'elles sont belles, ces verdures", 1994 [voice and piano], from Rubaiyat d'Omar Khayam, premier recueil, no. 4 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883) , no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 19, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 25, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 20, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 20, first published 1859 FRE ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Emma Lou Diemer, Liza Lehmann.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ENG ; composed by Francisco Mignone.
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