Edward Fitzgerald
Edward Fitzgerald
Edward FitzGeraldwas an English poet and writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The writing of his name as both FitzGerald and Fitzgerald is seen. The use here of FitzGerald conforms with that of his own publications, anthologies such as Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse, and most reference books up until about the 1960s...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth31 March 1809
among empty errand foot guests joyous pass reach shall shining spot thyself turn
And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass / Among the Guests Star-scattered on the Grass, / And in thy joyous Errand reach the Spot / Where I made one - turn down an empty Glass!
shall
And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass.
door found past veil
There was a Door to which I found no Key: / There was a Veil past which I could not see.
madness nor yesterday
Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
despair madness nor yesterday
Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where
english-poet money
Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
beneath beside book bread loaf paradise singing thou verse wilderness
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.
ancient garden ruby vine water
But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, / And still a Garden by the Water blows.
caravan dawn life moment setting stars starts taste
One Moment in Annihilation's Waste, / One Moment, of the Well of Life to taste - / The Stars are setting and the Caravan / Starts for the Dawn of Nothing - Oh, make haste!
caught flash lost tavern temple within
One Flash of It within the Tavern caught / Better than in the Temple lost outright.
ground hand jesus moses puts solitude soul thoughtful white year
Now the New Year reviving old Desires,/ The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,/ Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough/ Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
absolute grape jarring logic
The Grape that can with Logic absolute / The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute.
devise earth eden face forgiveness man sin
Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, / And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; / For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man / Is blackened. Man's Forgiveness give - and take!
leaves roses thousand
Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say: / Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?