The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
By Omar Khayyam (translated by Edward FitzGerald)
Cover: Night palace plate from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1909), colour illustration by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1953; published 1909)
Edward FitzGerald's free English version of the Persian astronomer's quatrains, with its wine, its roses and the Moving Finger that writes and moves on, became one of the most quoted poems of Victorian England. This edition prints the first and fifth versions, one after the other.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.