by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
But see! The rising Moon of Heav'n again
Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
But see! The rising Moon of Heav'n again Looks for us, Sweet-heart, through the quivering Plane: How oft hereafter rising will she look Among those leaves -- for one of us in vain!
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Text Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 109, second edition, first published 1868 [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]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883) , no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 74, first published 1859 ; composed by Houston Bright, Liza Lehmann, Arthur Finley Nevin, P Peter Sacco .
- Also set in English, a translation 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 ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley, Harrison Kerr, Elisabeth Charlotta Henrietta Ernestina Sonntag, Peter Pindar Stearns.
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