by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207 - 1273)
Translation © by Coleman Barks (b. 1937)
Quietness
Language: English  after the Persian (Farsi)
Inside this new love, die [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), "Quietness", copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207 - 1273) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by David Del Tredici (1937 - 2023), "Quietness", 1999, first performed 1999 [ baritone and piano ], from Three Baritone Songs, no. 1, note: this may be the wrong text for this title [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947), "Quietness", 2004 [ voice and piano ], from The Sun is Love, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2022-09-06
Line count: 15
Word count: 71