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Quatrain

Omar Khayyám

20 chapters · 15 min · English

Read by Chris Caron, David Lawrence, fshort, Algy Pug, Harvey Spurr, JemmaBlythe and others

Poetry · Miscellaneous

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Quatrain by Omar Khayyám. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 29, 2012.

This is the first known English translation of a quatrain by Omar Khayyám. It appeared in Sir William Jones's "A Grammar of the Persian Language" (1771). (Introduction by Algy Pug)

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