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!
Verses from the Rubáiyát
Song Cycle by Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927)
1. Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring  [sung text not yet checked]
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 7, 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 Miller2. Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough  [sung text not yet checked]
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse -- and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness -- And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 11, 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: Ferdinando Albeggiani3. Myself when young did eagerly frequent  [sung text not yet checked]
Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by that same door as in I went.
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 27, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 30, 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 Miller4. With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow  [sung text not yet checked]
With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with my own Hand [wrought to make it]1 grow, And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd -- "I came like Water, and like Wind I go."
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 28, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 31, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 28, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 28, 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 Miller
5. There was a Door to which I found no Key  [sung text not yet checked]
There was a Door to which I found no Key: There was a Veil past which I could not see: Some little Talk awhile of ME and THEE; There seem'd -- and then no more of THEE, and ME.
Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 32, 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 text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]