Quatrains of Omar Khayyam (tr. Whinfield, 1883)

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Quatrains of Omar Khayyám (1883)
by Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward Henry Whinfield

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This edition of Quatrains of Omar Khayyám contains 500 quatrains, side by side with the Persian originals.

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THE QUATRAINS

OF

OMAR KHAYYÁM.

THE PERSIAN TEXT WITH AN ENGLISH VERSE
TRANSLATION.

BY

E. H. WHINFIELD, M. A.

LATE OF THE BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE.

LONDON:

TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL.

1883.

LONDON:

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LIMITED,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE, CLERKENWELL ROAD.

. . . . . . . . . . . . ."A mind

Not wholly clear, nor wholly blind.

Too keen to rest, too weak to find,

That travails sore, and brings forth wind."

M. Arnold.

Chapters (not listed in original)

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