This collection discusses how "the idols I have loved so long have done my credit in Men's Eyes much wrong" and asks, "Ah, love!
This work claims that people are "but helpless pieces in the game He plays upon this chequer-board of Nights and Days" and describes how, "the worldly hope men set their Hearts upon turns ashes—or it prospers".  This collection discusses how "the idols I have loved so long have done my credit in Men's Eyes much wrong" and asks, "Ah, love! could thou and I with Fate conspire to grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire".  A more well known section of this work contains the lines, "A Book of Verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread—and Thou beside me singing in the wilderness".  For 10 points—name this collection, famously translated by Edmund Fitzgerald, a poetry collection by Omar Khayyam.
This work claims that people are "but helpless pieces in the game He plays upon this chequer-board of Nights and Days" and describes how, "the worldly hope men set their Hearts upon turns ashes—or it prospers".  
{Rubaiyat} of Omar Khayyam