“And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help—for It As impotently moves as you or I.”

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...