Edward Fitzgerald Poems
- 1. Rubà¡iyà¡t Of Omar Khayyà¡m
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AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
... - 2. Bird Parliament (translation Of)
Once on a time from all the Circles seven
Between the steadfast Earth and rolling Heaven
The Birds, of all Note, Plumage, and Degree,
That float in Air, and roost upon the Tree;
... - 3. From Omar Khayyam
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A BOOK of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou
... - 4. From The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám, I: 1-3, V: 12-15, 19-24, 71-72
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Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight
The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
... - 5. On Anne Allen
The wind blew keenly from the Western sea,
And drove the dead leaves slanting from the tree--
Vanity of vanities, the Preacher saith--
Heaping them up before her Father's door
... - 6. Old Song
Tis a dull sight
To see the year dying,
When winter winds
Set the yellow wood sighing:
... - 7. The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Of Naishapur
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Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
... - 8. The Meadows In Spring
'Tis a dull sight
To see the year dying,
When winter winds
Set the yellow wood sighing:
... - 9. The Dream Called Life
From the Spanish of Pedro Calderon de la Barca
A dream it was in which I found myself.
And you that hail me now, then hailed me king,
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