O Fortuna
MEDIEVAL LATIN POEM
O fortuna; O, Fortuna; Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
"O Fortuna" is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem which is part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana, written early in the 13th century. It is a complaint about Fortuna, the inexorable fate that rules both gods and mortals in Roman and Greek mythology.