by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Friedrich Rosen (1856 - 1935)
Heut, wo noch Rosendüfte mich umschweben
Language: German (Deutsch) after the Persian (Farsi)
Heut, wo noch Rosendüfte mich umschweben, Laß froh mich trinken von dem Saft der Reben Und schilt ihn nur nicht, [daß]1 er bitter schmeckt; Er muß ja bitter sein, sonst wär' er nicht mein Leben. --
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View original text (without footnotes)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 80.
1 Blacher: "das"Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Rosen (1856 - 1935), no title, appears in Die Sinnsprüche Omars des Zeltmachers Rubaijat-I-Omar-I-Khajjam, no. 98 [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 Boris Blacher (1903 - 1975), "Heut, wo noch Rosendüfte mich umschweben", 1931 [ medium voice and piano ], from Fünf Sinnsprüche Omars des Zeltmachers, no. 3, Boosey & Hawkes [sung text checked 1 time]
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. 43, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 43, first published 1872 ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley, Liza Lehmann, James Hotchkiss Rogers.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Frédéric Roger-Cornaz (1883 - 1970) , appears in Omar Khayyám. Les Rubáiyát, Paris, Éd. Librairie Payot et Cie ; composed by René Lenormand.
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