by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)
Je ne peux apercevoir le Ciel. J'ai trop...
Language: French (Français) after the Persian (Farsi)
Je ne peux apercevoir le Ciel. J'ai trop de larmes dans les yeux ! Les brasiers de l'Enfer ne sont qu'une infime étincelle, si je les compare aux flammes qui me dévorent. Le Paradis, pour moi, c'est un instant de paix.
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Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), no title, appears in Robaiyat, no. 38, first published 1924 [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 Carmen Brouard (1909 - 2005), "Je ne peux apercevoir le Ciel", 1960 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq interprétations d'Omar Khayyam, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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