A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of breadand thou.
The Rubaiyat is one of the most popular poems of all time.
A collection of quatrains composed in the eleventh century by Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyam, it was first published in English-language translation by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859.
Since then, its melancholy tone and enigmatic philosophy of mourning the painful brevity of life while celebrating what pleasures we may find have made it.
Bodleian Library The rubaiyat of omar khayyam, hardcover/omar
