Myself When Young...: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

by Edward FitzGerald (Translator), Omar Khayyám, Betty M. Owen (editor)

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام‎) is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs) per line, hence the word rubáiyát (derived from the Arabic language root for "four"), meaning "quatrains".

Genres: Poetry

61 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

People note British poet Edward FitzGerald for his translation in 1859 of The Rubáiyát , a collection of quatrains of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer Omar Khayyám.

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[Corbin Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Then to the rolling heav’n itself I cried,
Asking, “What lamp had destiny to guide
her little children stumbling in the dark?”

And - “A blind understanding!” heav’n replied