A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: Bring me that ruby in a simple glass, That confidant and companion of every free soul. Since you know that the duration of this earthly realm, Is but a wind that soon passes, bring me wine.

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: If a man could manage with a loaf of bread every two days, And a sip of cold water from a cracked jug, Why should he be a servant to one less than himself, Or serve one like himself?

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: A single drop of water became a sea, A tiny speck of dust united with the entire earth. What is the meaning of your coming into this world? Like a fly, you appeared and then vanished.

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: A cup of wine is worth a hundred hearts and religions, A single sip of wine is worth the kingdom of China. There is no elixir on earth except for ruby wine, Whose bitterness is worth a thousand sweet lives.

A Beautiful Rubai by Omar Khayyam English Translation: All my congenial companions have passed away, One by one they have fallen at the feet of Death. We drank from the same wine at the tavern of life, Yet some of them became intoxicated even before us.

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 …