Quotes by Omar Khayyam
5 quotes by Omar Khayyam (died 1131), taken from Rubáiyát. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Rubáiyát
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“WAKE! For the Sun, who scatter’d into flight / The Stars before him from the Field of Night, / Drives Night along with them from Heav’n, and strikes / The Sultan’s Turret with a Shaft of Light.”
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“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!”
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“Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring / Your Winter garment of Repentance fling: / The Bird of Time has but a little way / To flutter--and the Bird is on the Wing.”
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“Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears / TO-DAY of past Regrets and future Fears: / To-morrow--Why, To-morrow I may be / Myself with Yesterday’s Sev’n thousand Years.”
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“With me along the strip of Herbage strown / That just divides the desert from the sown, / Where name of Slave and Sultan is forgot-- / And Peace to Mahmud on his golden Throne!”