Wake! For the Sun who scatter'd into flight (Fitzgerald, set by L. Lehmann) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Wake! For the Sun who scatter'd into flight
The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes
The Sultán's Turret with a Shaft of Light.

Input by Barbara Miller

Authorship

Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883)

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Based on

text

Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048-c1122)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)

In a Persian Garden

Set in English, a translation of Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) ENG

Don Murray (1925-)

Songs from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Date added to the website: 2006-04-08.

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