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
cup dreaming dreams dry fill hand heard left liquor sky tavern voice within
Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry: 'Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry
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The court has heard substantial, ample evidence about the level of competency, ... And while I have not decided the issue, there is clearly a problem in terms of the defendant's competency.
absolute grape jarring logic
The Grape that can with Logic absolute / The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute.
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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.
ancient garden ruby vine water
But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, / And still a Garden by the Water blows.
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.
book wine paradise
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
time sleep sun
Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time.
life-is-short merry
I am all for the short and merry life.
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.
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I would say that she was an intelligent woman who had a great personality and a great sense of humor. She was an outstanding nurse when she was still practicing. She adored her nieces and nephews.
thousand
To-morrow? - Why, To-morrow I may be / Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.
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.