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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Selected Poems (Phoenix Poetry)
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Selected Poems - Phoenix Poetry Author:Tamam Shud 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. — --From the Rubaiyat — The best-selling poem of all time, Omar Khayaam’s Rubaiyat (“Quatrains”), was first published in the... more » West in 1859 by translator Edward FitzGerald. Excerpts from his well-loved version appear here, accompanied by Bird Parliament, a delightful work by Khayyam’s contemporary, the influential mystic poet Farrid Ud-Din Attar.« less