Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is a collection of poems authored by Persian astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyám. The poems in this title are written into quatrains, Rubaiyat being arabic for root of four, as in four line verses of which quatrains are made up of. One of the best-known, most often quoted English classics. This is Edward FitzGerald's free translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1122).

CONTENTS

• A note about the Artist.
• Omar Khayyam-An Introduction, by Edward J. Fitzgerald
• Fourth Version of the Rubaiyát-1879
• First Version of the Rubaiyát-1859

COLOR PLATES (facing verses)

• "And of the Wine you drink, the Lip you press"
• "Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight".
• "A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou".
• "The courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep"
• "Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears"
• "Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint"
• "It murmur'd-Gently, Brother, gently, pray
• "Was never deep in anything but-Wine"
• "To fill the Cup-when crumbled into Dust"
• "Sue for a Debt he never did contract"
• "One half so precious as the stuff they sell"