Wake! For the Sun [who]1 scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes The Sultán's Turret with a Shaft of Light.
Vanitas Vanitatum, song-cycle from "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" in the translation of Edward Fitzgerald
Song Cycle by Elisabeth Charlotta Henrietta Ernestina Sonntag (1866 - 1950)
1. Wake! For the Sun who scatter'd into flight [sung text checked 1 time]
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Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 1, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 1, first published 1872
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Headlam-Morley: "that"
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling. The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly -- and lo, the Bird is on the wing!
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 7, first published 1859
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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Researcher for this page: Barbara Miller2. Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon  [sung text checked 1 time]
Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 8, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 8, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 8, first published 1868
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- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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Researcher for this page: Barbara Miller3. I sent my Soul through the Invisible [sung text checked 1 time]
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I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some [letter]1 of that After-life to spell, And by and by my Soul return'd to me And answer'd: I myself am Heav'n and Hell.
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 66, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 66, first published 1868
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- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Lehmann: "secret"
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Heav'n but the vision of fulfilled Desire And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire, Cast on the Darkness into which ourselves, So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 72, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 67, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 67, first published 1868
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- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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Researcher for this page: Barbara MillerOh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain -- This Life flies: One thing is certain and the rest is lies; The Flower that once [is]1 blown for ever dies.
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 66, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 63, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 63, first published 1868
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- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Headlam-Morley: "has"
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4. Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears  [sung text checked 1 time]
Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears TO-DAY of past Regrets and future Fears: To-morrow! Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 20, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 21, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 21, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 21, first published 1859
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- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]5. For some we loved, the loveliest and the best  [sung text checked 1 time]
[For some]1 we [loved]2, the loveliest and [the]3 best That [from his Vintage rolling Time has prest]4, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest.
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 21, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 22, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 22, second and third editions, first published 1859
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- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 first edition: "Lo! some"; Lehmann: "Lo, some"
2 Lehmann: "lov'd"
3 omitted in the first edition; also omitted by Lehmann.
4 first edition: "Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest"
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6. Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend  [sung text checked 1 time]
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and -- sans End!
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 23, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 26, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 24, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 24, first published 1859
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- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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Researcher for this page: Barbara Miller7. Yon rising Moon that looks for us again  [sung text checked 1 time]
Yon rising Moon that looks for us again -- How oft hereafter will she wax and wane; How oft hereafter rising look for us Through this same Garden -- and for one in vain!
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 100, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 100, first published 1872
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- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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