Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XVIII
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XVIII
Omar Khayyam
I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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