The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Versions of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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.

Versions of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam include:

Edward FitzGerald's translations

• First Edition
• Second Edition
• Third Edition
  • Introduction to third edition
• Fourth Edition
• Fifth Edition

Other translations

• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translation by Edward Henry Whinfield

• Quatrains of Omar Khayyám (1883), containing 500 quatrains.

• The Roubayyat bi Omar Khayyam the Scots translation, being translated.
• Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, translation by Richard Le Gallienne
• 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)

See Also

• Khayyam Summary at groups.dcs
• The Rubaiyat By Omar Khayyam at The University of Adelaide Library.
• 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