Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, Rendered into English Verse

Omar Khayyam

Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald Contents: Introduction.

Omar Khayyam

Transcriber's Notes: 1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_.

Omar Khayyam

PERSIAN LITERATURE comprising THE SHÁH NÁMEH, THE RUBÁIYÁT THE DIVAN, AND THE GULISTAN Revised Edition, Volume 1 1909 With a special introduction by RICHARD J. H. GOTTHEIL, Ph.D. SPECIA...

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.