Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat is a collection of quatrains, or ruba'i, from 12th-century Persia, exploring themes of philosophy, fate, and the transient nature of life. Its popular English translation by Edward FitzGerald significantly influenced Western literature and romanticized perceptions of Persian poetry.
Sources for Omar Khayyam — Rubaiyat
Omar Khayyam — Rubaiyat in Poetry
Held in the Poetry chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Hesiod — Works and Days (c. 700 BCE)
- Anonymous — Classic of Poetry (Shijing) (c. 1000–600 BCE)
- Various Japanese poets — Manyoshu (c. 759 CE)
- Ferdowsi — Shahnameh (1010)
- Hafez — Divan (14th century)
- Rumi — Masnavi (13th century)
- Dante Alighieri — The Divine Comedy (c. 1320)
- Sappho — Poems (c. 600 BCE)
- Pindar — Odes (c. 470 BCE)
- Horace — Complete Works (c. 23 BCE)
- Li Po — The Works of Li Po, the Chinese Poet (8th century)
- Dante Alighieri — The New Life (La Vita Nuova) (c. 1294)
- Walt Whitman — Leaves of Grass (1855)
- Emily Dickinson — Poems (1890)
- Rabindranath Tagore — Gitanjali (1912)
- Sir Walter Scott — The Lady of the Lake (1810)
- Edgar Lee Masters — Spoon River Anthology (1915)