“The Rubáiyát”

Cultural

A poem by the twelfth-century Persian poet Omar Khayyam. This is the poem's best-known stanza, in a celebrated translation by Edward FitzGerald:
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,

A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou

Beside me singing in the Wilderness —

Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow [enough]!

Example Sentences

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To a devoted friend, such as Edward FitzGerald, the translator of the “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám,” who supported him for years, Tennyson could be rude, cold and ungrateful.

From The Wall Street Journal

The jewel-encrusted edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám was taken aboard the RMS Titanic and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, exactly 110 years ago.

From BBC

Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” and “The Rubaiyat” are among the movie’s literary references.

From New York Times

Long before that my mother used to read me The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám on the back verandah of our house in Kogarah.

From The Guardian

It is like trying to recite the Rubaiyat in the original Farsi while getting licked in the face by a rhinoceros.

From Washington Post

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