One poem from this collection asks whether God would tell his secret to "a maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew" and deny it to the speaker.
The creation of this poetry collection is the subject of a novel by Amin Maalouf. One poem from this collection asks whether God would tell his secret to "a maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew" and deny it to the speaker. In another poem from this collection, a "Vessel of a more ungainly Make" asks "did the Hand then of the Potter shake?" The speaker of one of its poems wishes to "conspire to grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire." The poems in this collection have an AABA rhyme scheme. One of the most famous poems from this collection begins, "The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ, moves on." The line "a jug of wine, a loaf of bread - and thou" appears in the fifth edition of Edward FitzGerald's translation of this work. For 10 points, name this collection of quatrains by Omar Khayyam.
The creation of this poetry collection is the subject of a novel by Amin Maalouf.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam