by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Would but some winged Angel ere too late
Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
Would but some winged Angel ere too late Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate, And make the stern Recorder otherwise Enregister, or quite obliterate!
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Text Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 98, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 98, first published 1872 [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 Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Would but some winged Angel ere too late", published [1909] [ soli, chorus, and orchestra ], from Omar Khayyám, Part III, no. 17, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dorothy Rudd Moore (1940 - 2022), "Would but some winged angel", 1963 [ soprano and oboe ], from Twelve Quatrains from the Rubaiyat, Song cycle for soprano and oboe, American Composers Alliance Inc. (BMI) [sung text not yet checked]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Henry Houseley (1852? - 1925), "Part 6", published 1917 [ soli, chorus, orchestra ], from cantata Omar Khayyám, no. 6, New York : H. W. Gray
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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-22
Line count: 4
Word count: 25