by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas (1814 - 1875)
Je ne suis digne ni de l'enfer ni du...
Language: French (Français) after the Persian (Farsi)
Je ne suis digne ni de l'enfer ni du séjour céleste ; Dieu sait de quelle terre il m'a pétri. Je suis hérétique comme un dervichei, laid comme une femme perdue ; je n'ai ni religion, ni fortune, ni espérance du paradis.
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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. 57, 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), "Je ne suis digne ni de l'enfer", 1994 [voice and piano], from Rubaiyat d'Omar Khayam, premier recueil, no. 10. [ sung text not verified ]
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This text was added to the website: 2017-04-17
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