title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Translated into English Verse by
author: Edward FitzGerald
description: Close friends compare H.D. Greaves to the legendary Phoenix, the bird that always rises from its own ashes. A Trinidad author, he lives and works in Port of Spain. When a young man of seventeen, a wonderful teacher introduced him to the Rubiyt of Omar Khayym; now seventy-nine, H.D. and Omar have grown old together, great friends from the beginning. For this labour of love, H.D. has written a Preface, a synopsis of Edward FitzGerald, and edited and formatted FitzGerald's entire Rubaiyat. H.D.s books are available worldwide on Amazons CreateSpace Print-on-Demand as well as on Amazon's Kindle, and Barnes &amp; Noble Bookstores.
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  Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam  
    
  Author: Omar Khayyam  
    
  Translator: Edward Fitzgerald  
    
  Release Date: July 10, 2008 [EBook #246]  
  Last Updated: February 4, 2013  
    
  Language: English  
    
    
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  # RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
  
  
    
  
  
  ## By Omar Khayyam
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
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  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Introduction](@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@246@246-h@246-h-0.htm.html#link2H_INTR)
  
  
  [Footnotes:](