“Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter—and the Bird is on the Wing.”

About Edward FitzGerald

Poet • British

Edward FitzGerald was an English poet and writer, best known for his celebrated 1859 translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Born in Suffolk, England, he lived a reclusive life of literary leisure, dedicated to his...