A New Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
A New Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
  A 2020 update to the wisdom of the classic collection of Persian Quatrains originally written by Omar Khayyam
  around 1100 CE, and first translated into English by William Fitzgerald in 1859. Side-by-side comparison with the original.
  Available for Kindle and Paperback through Amazon.com
  A picture of the Cover of the New Rubaiyat

Today's Verse

47


At last call, what will be your legacy;

with what stamp will you mark eternity?

When you cash out, whatever you have been,

whatever you are, you will always be.
  The celestial spheres of Ptolemy illustration
A Verse from the Original

Verse 31

Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate

I rose, and on the throne of Saturn sate,

And many knots unravel'd by the Road;

But not the Knot of Human Death and Fate.