by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas (1814 - 1875)
Qui croira jamais que celui qui a...
Language: French (Français) after the Persian (Farsi)
Qui croira jamais que celui qui a confectionné la coupe puisse songer à la détruire ? Toutes ces belles têtes, tous ces beaux bras, toutes ces mains charmantes, par quel amour ont-ils été créés, et par quelle haine sont-ils détruits ?
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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 22.
Text Authorship:
- by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas (1814 - 1875), no title, appears in Les Quatrains de Khèyam, no. 38, 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), "Qui croira jamais", 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Rubaiyat d'Omar Khayam, premier recueil, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
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, Third Edition, no. 85, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 85, first published 1872 ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2017-04-17
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Word count: 40