Waste not your hour! (Fitzgerald, set by L. Lehmann, L. Lehmann) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Waste not your [hour, nor in the vain pursuit
Of This and That endeavour and dispute;
Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape
Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.]¹

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¹ Lehmann, number 16: "hour!" (and the rest omitted)
Note: Lehmann omits the first two lines in number 19.

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)

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Text is used as part of a longer work

Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)

In a Persian Garden

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Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)

In a Persian Garden

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Date added to the website: 2009-01-12.

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