The Rubaiyát Of Omar Khayyám (Folio Society Edition) – Omar Khayyám

This classic collection of quatrains, or *rubáiyát*, is a timeless meditation on life’s brevity and ultimate mystery. Written by the 11th-century Persian polymath Omar Khayyám and famously rendered into English verse, the poems are a powerful blend of hedonism and philosophy. They passionately urge the reader to embrace the fleeting joys of wine, love, and poetry (“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse—and Thou”) before the inevitable “Moving Finger” writes their fate, creating a resonant and profound elegy to human existence.