by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the...
Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
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.
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Authorship
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 11, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- 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 Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927), "Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough", published 1970 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Verses from the Rubáiyát, no. 2, NY : Boosey & Hawkes [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Don Murray (b. 1925), "Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough" [baritone and piano], from Songs from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, no. 5 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
Set in a modified version by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Richard Layton Kent, Liza Lehmann, James Hotchkiss Rogers, Powell Weaver.
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883) , no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 12, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 12, first published 1872 FRE ITA ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Richard Layton Kent, Liza Lehmann, James Hotchkiss Rogers, Powell Weaver.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ENG ENG ENG ; composed by Francisco Mignone.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955) , no title, appears in Robaiyat, no. 72, first published 1924 ENG ENG ENG ; composed by Carmen Brouard.
Researcher for this text: Ferdinando Albeggiani
This text was added to the website: 2008-01-04
Line count: 4
Word count: 30