Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough (Fitzgerald) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse -- and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness --
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

Input by Ferdinando Albeggiani

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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Set in a modified version by

Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)

In a Persian Garden

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

Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)

In a Persian Garden

Date added to the website: 2008-01-04.

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