Omar Khayyam

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel ...

And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of ...

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about ...

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your ...

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Ni ...

This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs ...

This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame ...

Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.

When you are so full of sorrow that you can't walk, can't cry anymore, think about the green foliage ...

Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should ...

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin ...