The speaker of the twelfth of these poems exclaims: "Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!"
Benjamin O. Lesage reads one of these poems calling life a "breath blown from the vasty deeps" moments before fleeing the sinking Titanic without this collection's original manuscript in Amin Maalouf's novel Samarkand. In one of these poems, pieces belonging to "Men" and "Destiny" are arrayed atop a "Chequer-board of Nights and Days." A poem in this collection subverts a parable in the Book of Jeremiah by asking, "Who is the potter, pray, and who the pot?" The speaker of the twelfth of these poems exclaims: "Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!" upon listing "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, / A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread– and Thou." For 10 points, Edward FitzGerald produced the first English translation of what set of quatrains penned by Omar Khayyám?
Benjamin O. Lesage reads one of these poems calling life a "breath blown from the vasty deeps" moments before fleeing the sinking Titanic without this collection's original manuscript in Amin Maalouf's novel Samarkand.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám &lt;Non-Epic Poetry&gt;