Coming events cast their shadows before.

About Edward Fitzgerald

English poet best known for his free translation of Omar Khayyám's "Rubáiyát," one of the most popular poems in English.

More poems by Edward Fitzgerald

• Autumn's Farewell — Edward Fitzgerald (1830)
• A Verse Allegory — Edward Fitzgerald
• Flodden Field, An Ancient Poem — Edward Fitzgerald
• Gaze not Upon the Stars — Edward Fitzgerald
• Literal Translation — Edward Fitzgerald
• A Tale of Woe and Strife — Edward Fitzgerald
• Clan Alpin’s Vow — Edward Fitzgerald (1811)
• Locheil’s Warning — Edward Fitzgerald

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More Life & Death poems

• Because I could not stop for Death — Emily Dickinson (1863)
• Fire and Ice — Robert Frost (1923)
• Hamlet's Soliloquy: To be or not to be — William Shakespeare
• Crabbed Age and Youth — William Shakespeare (1599)
• Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud — John Donne
• A Sea Dirge — William Shakespeare
• Crossing the Bar — William Butler Yeats (1889)
• Fidele — William Shakespeare

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