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About Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam was a Persian mathematician and astronomer who worked on cubic equations and helped reform the calendar. The short four-line poems (rubaiyat) credited to him became famous in English through Edward FitzGerald’s free translation of 1859, which is more FitzGerald’s own poem than a word-for-word version.
More lines by Khayyam
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- “The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1859
- “A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, a Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou beside me singing in the Wilderness.”Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, FitzGerald's later editions