The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A jug of wine, a loaf of bread

Edward FitzGerald’s immortal English version of the Persian quatrains — wine, mortality, and the fleeting now, the most-quoted translation in the language.

In this collection

• Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa
• Mexican Serenade
• Fragmentary Blue
• Certitude
• Lines on the Death of Lord Nelson
• The Sleeping Beauty
• First Loss
• Spilt Milk
• Our Autocrat
• A Thought Went up my Mind Today
• When your Sins Come Home to Roost
• Waltz
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