Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, rendered into Engl. verse [by E. Fitzgerald. 2nd version].1868 |
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... better Hope as others , with no better Revelation to guide them , had yet made a Law to themselves . Lucretius , indeed , with such material as Epicurus furnished , satisfied himself with the theory of so vast a machine fortuitously ...
... better Hope as others , with no better Revelation to guide them , had yet made a Law to themselves . Lucretius , indeed , with such material as Epicurus furnished , satisfied himself with the theory of so vast a machine fortuitously ...
Page xvii
... better among so inflam- cutée par les moullahs musulmans , et même par beaucoup de laïques , qui rougissent véritablement d'une pareille licence de leur compatriote à l'égard des choses spirituelles . " mable a People : much more so ...
... better among so inflam- cutée par les moullahs musulmans , et même par beaucoup de laïques , qui rougissent véritablement d'une pareille licence de leur compatriote à l'égard des choses spirituelles . " mable a People : much more so ...
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... Better be merry with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none , or bitter , Fruit . LVII . You know , my Friends , how bravely in my House For a new Marriage I did make Carouse : Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed , And took the ...
... Better be merry with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none , or bitter , Fruit . LVII . You know , my Friends , how bravely in my House For a new Marriage I did make Carouse : Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed , And took the ...
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... whether the one True Light , Kindle to Love , or Wrath - consume me quite , One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright . LXXXIV . What ! out of senseless Nothing to provoke OMAR KHAYYÁM . 17.
... whether the one True Light , Kindle to Love , or Wrath - consume me quite , One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright . LXXXIV . What ! out of senseless Nothing to provoke OMAR KHAYYÁM . 17.
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... if the World were but to re - create , That we might catch ere closed the Book of Fate , And make The Writer on a fairer leaf Inscribe our names , or quite obliterate ! CVII . Better , oh better , cancel from the 22 RUBÁIYÁT OF.
... if the World were but to re - create , That we might catch ere closed the Book of Fate , And make The Writer on a fairer leaf Inscribe our names , or quite obliterate ! CVII . Better , oh better , cancel from the 22 RUBÁIYÁT OF.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Rendered Into Engl. Verse [By E. Fitzgerald. 2nd ... Omar Khayyam No preview available - 2015 |
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Rendered Into Engl. Verse [By E. Fitzgerald. 2Nd ... Omar Khayyam No preview available - 2018 |
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according ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA Attár Bahrám better Bodleian buried Calcutta Review Clay Copy cries cruche de vin D'Herbelot d'une sensualité quelquefois dánad O dánad Darkness Dieu divides the False Divinité Divinity Door Drink Dust Earth Edition Epicurean evil Fate Flower that once Garden Grape Ground Háfiz Hasan Hátim heads sc Heav'n Hell herbage hurlemens Images Imám Mowaffak JAMSHYD JOHN CHILDS Kaikobád Khéyam Khorassan lean little hour live Love Lucretius Máh Mahmúd Malik Shah Mons Moon Musulman mystical Naishápúr Nicolas Nightingale Nizám Nizám-ul-Mulk Oh Thou Old Acquaintance Omar Khayyám Omar's Oriental Pantheism passion à l'étude Péhlevi perhaps Persepolis Poems point commis Predestin'd Prophet's Paradise Quatrain Ramazán Religions supposed rougissant Rubáiyát sensual Sháh-náma Shiraz Soufis Soul Spring Stepney Story Subhi Súfi Sultan supposed to divide Tavern Teheran tell Tetrastichs To-morrow ul Mulk Vernal Equinox Vessel Vine Vizier Von Hammer whence Whither Wine Wine-bearer World
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Page 6 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End! Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries, "Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There.
Page 22 - Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang, Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
Page 23 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Page 3 - A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh ! Wilderness were Paradise enow ! XII " How sweet is mortal Sovrainty ! " — think some ; Others " How blest the Paradise to come!
Page 17 - With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed : And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
Page 5 - And we, that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom, Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend — ourselves to make a Couch — for whom...
Page 7 - Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing ; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
Page 29 - To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 16 - But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Page 4 - The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone.