Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain LIX
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain LIX
Omar Khayyam
Listen again. One Evening at the Close
Of Ramazan, ere the better Moon arose,
In that old Potter's Shop I stood alone
With the clay Population round in Rows.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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