“A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness— Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!”

About Omar Khayyam

Poet • Persian

Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām Nīshāpūrī, commonly known as Omar Khayyam, was a Persian polymath, renowned as a mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. He made significant...