The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Omar Khayyam Poem)
I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
If the Led Striker call it a strike, Or the papers call it a war, They know not much what ...
Then an old man, a keeper of an inn, said, "Speak to us of Eating and Drinking." And he said: ...
And an orator said, "Speak to us of Freedom." And he answered: At the city gate and by your fireside ...
Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, "Speak to us of Crime and Punishment." And ...
Part One The power of charity sows deep in my heart, and I reap and gather the wheat in bundles ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
In the outer world that was before this earth, That was before all shape or space was born, Before the ...
I AM that which began; Out of me the years roll; Out of me God and man; I am equal ...
PART I It is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
Art thou indeed among these, Thou of the tyrannous crew, The kingdoms fed upon blood, O queen from of old ...
There is no woman living who draws breath So sad as I, though all things sadden her. There is not ...
I -- In Church Thou whose birth on earth Angels sang to men, While thy stars made mirth, Saviour, at ...
Is it so, that the sword is broken, Our sword, that was halfway drawn? Is it so, that the light ...
CHORUS If with voice of words or prayers thy sons may reach thee, We thy latter sons, the men thine ...
Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal, -- There where the vines cling crimson on the wall, -- And in ...
The Mountains A land of sombre, silent hills, where mountain cattle go By twisted tracks, on sidelings deep, where giant ...
A land, as far as the eye can see, where the waving grasses grow Or the plains are blackened and ...
To range, deep-wrapt, along a heavenly height, O'erseeing all that man but undersees; To loiter down lone alleys of delight, ...
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