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Available Poems in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition (by Edward Fitzgerald )

[Complete]

  • no. 1. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night  (Don Murray) ⊗
  • no. 2. Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky  FRE ⊗
  • no. 3. And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley, Don Murray) ⊗
  • no. 4. Now the New Year reviving old Desires  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Liza Lehmann) FRE ITA ⊗
  • no. 5. Iram indeed is gone with all his Rose  ⊗
  • no. 6. And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 7. Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Emma Lou Diemer, Richard Layton Kent, Liza Lehmann, Elisabeth Charlotta Henrietta Ernestina Sonntag) ITA ⊗
  • no. 8. And look -- a thousand Blossoms with the Day  ⊗
  • no. 9. But come with old Khayyám, and leave the Lot  (Don Murray) ⊗
  • no. 10. With me along some Strip of Herbage strown  FRE ⊗
  • no. 11. Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough  (Emma Lou Diemer, Don Murray) FRE FRE ⊗
  • no. 12. How sweet is mortal Sovranty!" -- think some  ⊗
  • no. 13. Look to the blowing Rose about us -- "Lo  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley) FRE ⊗
  • no. 14. The worldly hope men set their Hearts upon  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley, Liza Lehmann, Michael Richard Miller, Dorothy Rudd Moore) ⊗
  • no. 15. And those who husbanded the Golden Grain  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 16. Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley, Liza Lehmann) GER ⊗
  • no. 17. They say the Lion and the Lizard keep  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley, Liza Lehmann) ⊗
  • no. 18. I sometimes think that never blows so red  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Redgewell Dansie, Henry Houseley, Liza Lehmann, Don Murray) ⊗
  • no. 19. And this delightful Herb, whose tender green  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Emma Lou Diemer, Henry Houseley, Liza Lehmann) FRE ⊗
  • no. 20. Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Elisabeth Charlotta Henrietta Ernestina Sonntag, William C. Stickles) ⊗
  • no. 21. For some we loved, the loveliest and the best  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Redgewell Dansie, Liza Lehmann, Elisabeth Charlotta Henrietta Ernestina Sonntag) FRE ⊗
  • no. 22. And we, that now make merry in the Room  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley) ⊗
  • no. 23. Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley, Liza Lehmann, Elisabeth Charlotta Henrietta Ernestina Sonntag) SPA ⊗
  • no. 24. Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Victor Harris, Henry Houseley) ⊗
  • no. 25. Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Liza Lehmann) ⊗
  • no. 26. Oh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise  ⊗
  • no. 27. Myself when young did eagerly frequent  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Redgewell Dansie, Emma Lou Diemer, Michael Richard Miller) ⊗
  • no. 28. With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Emma Lou Diemer, Henry Houseley, Liza Lehmann) ⊗
  • no. 29. Into this Universe, and why not knowing  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley, Michael Richard Miller) FRE FRE SPA ⊗
  • no. 30. What, without asking, hither hurried whence?  ⊗
  • no. 31. Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 32. There was a Door to which I found no Key  (Emma Lou Diemer) FRE ⊗
  • no. 33. Then to the rolling Heav'n itself I cried, Asking  ⊗
  • no. 34. Then to this earthen Bowl did I adjourn  ⊗
  • no. 35. I think the Vessel, that with fugitive  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) FRE FRE ⊗
  • no. 36. For in the Market-place, one Dusk of Day  ⊗
  • no. 37. Ah, fill the Cup: -- What boots it to repeat  (Liza Lehmann) SPA ⊗
  • no. 38. One Moment in Annihilation's Waste  ⊗
  • no. 39. How long, how long, in infinite Pursuit  ⊗
  • no. 40. You know, my Friends, how long since in my House  ⊗
  • no. 41. For "IS" and IS-NOT though with Rule and Line  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 42. And lately, by the Tavern Door agape  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 43. The Grape that can with Logic absolute  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 44. The mighty Mahmúd, the victorious Lord  ⊗
  • no. 45. But leave the Wise to wrangle, and with me  ⊗
  • no. 46. For in and out, above, about, below  ⊗
  • no. 47. And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press  GER ⊗
  • no. 48. While the Rose blows along the River Brink  GER ⊗
  • no. 49. 'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days  FRE SPA ⊗
  • no. 50. The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 51. The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Rebecca Clarke, Henry Houseley, Don Murray, James Hotchkiss Rogers) ⊗
  • no. 52. And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 53. With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 54. I tell Thee this -- When, starting from the Goal  ⊗
  • no. 55. The Vine had struck a Fibre; which about  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 56. And this I know: whether the one True Light  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 57. Oh, Thou, who didst with Pitfall and with Gin  (Thomas Adès, Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 58. Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) FRE ⊗
  • no. 59. Listen again. One Evening at the Close  (Don Murray) ⊗
  • no. 60. And, strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot  (Don Murray) ⊗
  • no. 61. Then said another -- "Surely not in vain  ⊗
  • no. 62. Another said -- "Why, ne'er a peevish Boy  FRE ⊗
  • no. 63. None answer'd this; but after Silence spake  (Don Murray) ⊗
  • no. 64. Said one -- "Folks of a surly Tapster tell  (Don Murray) ⊗
  • no. 65. Then said another with a long-drawn Sigh  ⊗
  • no. 66. So while the Vessels one by one were speaking  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 67. Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Houston Bright) ⊗
  • no. 68. That ev'n my buried Ashes such a Snare  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 69. Indeed the Idols I have loved so long  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 70. Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 71. And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir) ⊗
  • no. 72. Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Frank Bibb, Charles Cohn, W. Clark Harrington, Liza Lehmann, P Peter Sacco ) ⊗
  • no. 73. Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire  (Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley, Harrison Kerr, Liza Lehmann, P Peter Sacco ) ⊗
  • no. 74. Ah, moon of my delight, who know'st no wane  (Houston Bright, Liza Lehmann, Arthur Finley Nevin, P Peter Sacco ) ⊗
  • no. 75. And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass  (Houston Bright, Liza Lehmann) ⊗

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