by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
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!
Composition:
- Set to music by Elisabeth Charlotta Henrietta Ernestina Sonntag (1866 - 1950), no title, published 1925, first performed 1925 [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Vanitas Vanitatum, song-cycle from "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" in the translation of Edward Fitzgerald, no. 7, as Else Headlam-Morley
Text 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
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-13
Line count: 4
Word count: 32