A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: Even the grain of hope will remain in the harvest, And the garden and house will remain without you and me. Spend your silver and gold from a dirham to a grain, With a friend, or else it will remain with an …

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: My heart was never deprived of knowledge, Only a little remained of the mysteries that remained unknown. I thought night and day for seventy-two years, I realized that nothing was known.

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: Every morning when the tulip’s face is bedewed with dew, And the violet bends over the meadow, I find the rosebud more just, For it gathers its own skirt.

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: Every secret that is in the heart of a wise person Must be hidden more securely than a simurgh. For within a shell, through concealment, becomes a pearl, That drop which is the secret of the heart of the sea.

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: Drink wine, for it will take away from the heart both excess and deficiency, And it will dispel the thoughts of seventy-two nations. Do not abstain from this elixir, for one sip of it Will take away a thousand worries.

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: They say those who live in piety, Will rise on the Day of Judgment as they died. We, however, are constantly with wine and a beloved, Perhaps on the Day of Resurrection, we will be raised in the same state.

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: They say there will be paradise, houris, and the river of life, Streams of wine, milk, honey, and sugar will flow. Fill up the cup of wine and place it in my hand, For a cash payment is better than a thousand …

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: They say there will be paradise and houris there, There will be wine, milk, and honey there. If we have chosen wine and a beloved, what do we care, Since in the end, things will be like this.

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: If even a single breath passes from your life, Do not let it pass except in joy. Beware, for the capital of the world's desires Is life, which passes as though it were spent in vain.

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: The heavens pluck no flower from the earth, Which they do not break and to the earth return. If the clouds, like water, take the earth away, Until the Day of Judgment, the blood of loved ones will rain.

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: Though my sorrow and pain may be long, Your joy and pleasure may be high, Rely not on either, for the wheel of fortune Has a thousand different tricks up its sleeve.

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: Diminish your desires from the world and live happily, Break free from the chains of fortune's good and bad. Take wine in hand and the locks of your beloved, For soon this few days will pass and not remain.