The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám of Nishapur

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام) The Rubáiyát (Arabic: رباعیات) is a collection of poems (of which there are about a thousand) attributed to the Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyám (1048-1123). "Rubaiyat" means "quatrains": verses of four lines. — Excerpted from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

[edit] Translations

Edward FitzGerald's Translation

• Introduction
• First Edition
• Second Edition
• Third Edition
• Fourth Edition
• Fifth Edition

Other translations

• E.H. Whinfield's translation
• Richard Le Gallienne's translation
• What is the benefit of our arrival and departure? (Literal)
  • We come and go, but for the gain, where is it? (E. H. Whinfield)
  • Where have we come from? Where are we going? (Rumer/Smirnov)
• The Rose said: “Oh, my most radiant beauty (Rumer/Smirnov)
• What do you mean to the world? – Nothing! (Rumer/Smirnov)

[edit] See Also

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• Khayyam Summary at groups.dcs
• The Rubaiyat By Omar Khayyam at Adelaide. Edu.
• Rubaiyat of Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald
• The Rubaiyat of Hayyam by Wallace Irwin at Gutenberg Project
• The Rubaiyat and Paramahansa Yogananda's Commentary
• The Rubaiyat of Hayyam in Farsi, German and English with literal translations and explanations