Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

✍ Scribed by Omar Khayyam

• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 21
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the eleventh century, in Persia, there lived a mathematician named Ghiyathuddin Abulfath Omar bin Ibrahim al-Khayyami--or, Omar, son of Abraham, the tent-maker. Omar wrote poetry, and while his rhymes received little attention in their day, they were rediscovered and translated into beautiful English--more than seven centuries later--by a gentleman and scholar named Edward FitzGerald. It was a meeting of minds, a great collaboration of the past and the present, and FitzGerald's rendition of those passionate verses has become one of the best loved poem cycles in the English language.With their concern for the here and now, as opposed to the hereafter, Omar Khayyam's quatrains are as romantic today as they were hundreds of years ago; they are a tribute to the power of one moment's pleasure over a lifetime of sorrow, of desire over the vicissitudes of time. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, presented here with Edward FitzGerald's original preface, is truly a classic, and it will stand forever as one of our finest monuments to love.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 2
Omar Khayyam......Page 5
V.......Page 7
XII.......Page 8
XIX.......Page 9
XXVI.......Page 10
XXXIII.......Page 11
XL.......Page 12
XLVII.......Page 13
LIV.......Page 14
LXI.......Page 15
LXVIII.......Page 16
LXXV.......Page 17
LXXXII.......Page 18
LXXXIX.......Page 19
XCV.......Page 20
TAMAM.......Page 21