The Rubayat of Omar Khayyam

One of the best-known, most often quoted English classics. Edward FitzGerald's translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher.

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is a collection of quatrains composed in the eleventh century by Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyám.