# Omar Khayyám

- Quotes: 134
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam

## Books

- [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam.md) — 134 quotes

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> Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire.

> A book, a woman, and a flask of wine:
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> The three make heaven for me; it may be thine
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> Is some sour place of singing cold and bare —
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> But then, I never said thy heaven was mine.

p. 32

> Would but some wing'ed Angel ere too late
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> Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate,
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> And make the stern Recorder otherwise
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> Enregister, or quite obliterate!

> What! from his helpless Creature be repaid
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> Pure Gold for what he lent him dross-allay'd —
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> Sue for a Debt he never did contract,
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> And cannot answer — Oh, the sorry trade!

> And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass
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> Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on The Grass,
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> And in Thy joyous Errand reach the Spot
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> Where I made one — turn down an empty Glass!

> And this I know: whether the one True Light
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> Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite,
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> One Flash of It within the Tavern caught
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> Better than in the Temple lost outright.

> The Vine had struck a fibre: which about
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> If clings my being — let the Dervish flout;
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> Of my Base metal may be filed a Key,
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> That shall unlock the Door he howls without.

> Yon rising Moon that looks for us again —
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> How oft hereafter will she wax and wane;
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> How oft hereafter rising look for us
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> Through this same Garden — and for one in vain!

> But here are wine and beautiful young girls,
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> Be wise and hide your Sorrows in their curls,
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> Dive as you will in life's mysterious sea,
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> You shall not bring us any better pearls.

p. 45

> One half so precious as the stuff they sell.

> I wonder often what the Vintners buy
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> One half so precious as the stuff they sell.

> Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide,
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> And wash the Body whence the Life has died,
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> And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf,
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> By some not unfrequented Garden-side.