by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907)
Si j'étais Dieu
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
Si j'étais Dieu, la mort serait sans proie, Les hommes seraient bons, j'abolirais l'adieu, Et nous ne verserions que des larmes de joie, Si j'étais Dieu. Si j'étais Dieu, de beaux fruits sans écorces Mûriraient; le travail ne serait plus qu'un jeu, Car nous n'agirions plus que pour sentir nos forces, Si j'étais Dieu. Si j'étais Dieu, pour toi, celle que j'aime, Je déploirais un ciel toujours frais, toujours bleu; Mais je te laisserais, ô mon ange, la même, Si j'étais Dieu.
Authorship:
- by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907), "Si j'étais Dieu", appears in Stances et Poèmes, in 1. Stances, in Femmes, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by René de Boisdeffre (1838 - 1906), "Si j'étais Dieu", op. 68 no. 4, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, recueil 6, no. 4, Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Enescu (1881 - 1955), "Si j'étais Dieu", 1897/8 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Hachette [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hercule Gilles de Fontenailles (1858 - 1922), "Si j'étais Dieu", published 1897 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Durand [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jenő Hubay (1858 - 1937), "Si j'étais Dieu", op. 17 (Cinq mélodies) no. 5, published 1890 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), "Si j'étais Dieu", published 1893 [ voice and piano ], London, Robert Cocks & Co [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Kdybych byl bohem"
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "If I were God", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Peter Brixius
This text was added to the website: 2008-04-18
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