by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Friedrich Rosen (1856 - 1935)
O komm, Geliebte, komm, es sinkt die...
Language: German (Deutsch) after the Persian (Farsi)
O komm, Geliebte, komm, es sinkt die Nacht, Verscheuche mir durch deiner Schönheit Pracht Des Zweifels Dunkel! Nimm den Krug und trink, Eh' man aus unserm Staube Krüge macht.
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Confirmed with Die Sinnsprüche Omars des Zeltmachers Rubaijat-I-Omar-I-Khajjam aus dem Persischen übertragen von Friedrich Rosen, II. Vermehrte Auflage, Stuttgart und Berlin, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1912, page 34.
Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Rosen (1856 - 1935), no title, appears in Die Sinnsprüche Omars des Zeltmachers Rubaijat-I-Omar-I-Khajjam, no. 24 [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 Daniel Ruyneman (1886 - 1963), "O komm, Geliebte", 1950, copyright © 1951 [ voice and piano ], from Drei persische Lieder, no. 1, Amsterdam: Donemus [sung text checked 1 time]
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