Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

"Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ''ruba''i'' is a two-line stanza with two parts per line, hence the word rubáiyát (derived from the Arabic language root for "four"), mean...