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"These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread."
In a copy of Omar Khayyám.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Cæsar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head."
Rubáiyát. Stanza xix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A Moment's Halt--a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste-- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!"
Rubáiyát. Stanza xlviii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire."
Rubáiyát. Stanza lxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
Rubáiyát. Stanza lxxi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite, One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright."
Rubáiyát. Stanza lxxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And when like her, O Sáki, you shall pass Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass, And in your blissful errand reach the spot Where I made One--turn down an empty Glass."
Rubáiyát. Stanza ci.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain