Great Poems

A Book of Verses

by Omar Khayyam


A book of verses, underneath the bough,
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread - and thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness -
Ah, wilderness were paradise enow!



From "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
translated by Edward Fitzgerald (2nd edition)




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