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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.
FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
And when like her, oh, Saki, you shall pass.
FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
That sallow cheek of hers to' incarnadine.
FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
When you and I behind the Veil are past.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120)
Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
This circle of the universe resembles a ring,
Unquestionably we are the signet engraved on its bezel.
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Allah hath promised wine in Paradise,
Why then is wine on earth declared a vice.
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Man is a cup, his soul the wine therein,
Flesh is a pipe, spirit the voice therein,
O Khayyam have you fathomed what man is?
A magic lantern with a light therein.
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
I wonder often what the Vintners buy
One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky.
FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
When seeking love, pay court to every heart,
When once admitted, seek the perfect heart
A hundred ka’bas equal not one heart;
eek not the ka’ba, rather seek the heart.
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
For some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest.
FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
Came out by the same Door where in I went.
FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire.
FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
Is a friend faithless? Spurn him as a foe,
But on trustworthy foes respect bestow,
Hold healing poison for an antidote,
And baneful sweets for deadly eisel know.
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord
That all the misbelieving and black Horde
Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul
Scatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.
FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
The Grape that can with Logic absolute
The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute.
FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120)