Digital Archive • کتب خانہ
E-Books & Rare Manuscripts (کتب خانہ)
Read and explore digitized historical Diwans, Kulliyats, and Urdu classical literary collections.
English Poetry & Literature
1879
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar KhayyamThe quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the Persian astronomer-poet, in Edward FitzGerald's famous English rendering — here in the fourth edition of 1879, the version FitzGerald himself settled. Wine and roses, the moving finger, and the brief span of life: the Rubaiyat became one of the most loved poem-sequences in the English language, carrying readers from Persian poetry into English verse by the oldest bridge between them.