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Resources => Poetry [Public] => Topic started by: Nichi on September 11, 2013, 03:47:53 AM

Title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Post by: Nichi on September 11, 2013, 03:47:53 AM

Complete with illustrations by Edmund Dulac...

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35260/35260-h/35260-h.htm

(http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35260/35260-h/images/facing39.jpg)

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

Title: Re: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Post by: Michael on September 13, 2013, 11:06:57 PM

That is my favourite of the numerous versions, both of his and others. It is such a beautiful and meaningful poem!