Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same Garden after me—in vain!
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same Garden after me—in vain!
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza LXXV (variant)
c. 11th-12th century
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"You come like a thief in the night, and steal away a little portion of my life; and I cannot get it back again."
Strange & Unusual"Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore—but was I sober when I swore? And then—and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand My spirit will not all renounce her lore."
Strange & Unusual"Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!"
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Strange & Unusual"Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore—but was I sober when I swore?"
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