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The World in Pictures. Omar Khayyam. Rubáyát about the meaning of life.
The World in Pictures. Omar Khayyam. Rubáyát about the meaning of life.
The World in Pictures. Omar Khayyam. Rubáyát about the meaning of life.
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Selected rubáyát by Omar Khayyam about the meaning of life in translated by Richard Le Gallienne.Works of the following artists are used in this publication: Mohammad Tajvidi, Charles Landelle, Albrecht Dürer, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Jacques Aved, Paul-Louis Bouchard, Ludwig Deutsch.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAegitas
Release dateMay 18, 2017
ISBN9781773132310
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    The World in Pictures. Omar Khayyam. Rubáyát about the meaning of life. - Khayyam, Omar

    Vladimir Butromeev

    THE WORLD IN PICTURES

    RUBÁYÁT ABOUT THE MEANING OF LIFE

    by OMAR KHAYYAM

    Titul_Hayam_Meaning_of_life

    * * *

    Wake! for the sun, the shepherd of the sky,

    Has penned the stars within their fold on high,

    And, shaking darkness from his mighty limbs,

    Scatters the daylight from his burning eye.

    * * *

    In Heaven's blue bowl the wine of morning brims,

    A little cloud, a rose-leaf, in it swims,

    The thirsty earth drinks morning from a bowl

    Whose sides are space and crusted stars its rims.

    * * *

    Yea! 'tis the morn! and like a morning star

    The Sultan's palace glitters from afar,

    No false mirage of morning, phantom-fair,

    But blue-eyed day throned on his diamond car.

    * * *

    Youth, like a magic bird, has flown away,

    He sang a little morning-hour in May,

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