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Subject: OMAR KHAYYAM (1048-1122)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` IN A COPY OF OMAR KHAYYAM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These pearls of thought in persian gulfs were bred
Last Line: Groping, you may like omar grasp a pearl.
Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Writing & Writers


LINES WRITTEN ('BY REQUEST') FOR A DINNER..OMAR KHAYYAM CLUB, by OWEN SEAMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Master, in memory of that verse of thine
Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)


OMAR AND EDWARD, by CHARLES OSBORNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A jug of wine, a loaf of bread
Last Line: A flask of wine beneath the bough, %and poetry, and bread -and thou
Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)


OMAR AND PAUL, by MARY STEPHANIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tents of tarsus and naishapur
Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)


OMAR AND THE PERSIAN, by SARAH (SADIE) WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The victor stood beside the spoil, and by
Last Line: "hold! If there be a sacred thing, it is the warrior's word."
Subject(s): Iran; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Persia


OMAR KHAYYAM, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Reading in omar till the thoughts that burned
Last Line: That casts its light stain on the asian page.
Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Poetry & Poets; Liberty


OMAR KHAYYAM, THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend, is it well with thee? Over thy grave
Last Line: His love the fire that will consume and save?
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Poetry & Poets; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


OMAR KHAYYAM: THE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE, by CHARLES POWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some for the patter of little feet: and some
Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)


ON READING OMAR KHAYYAM, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the midst of the battle I turned
Last Line: Leaving the singer asleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Temperance; Prohibition


ON READING THE 'RUBAIYAT' OF OMAR KHAYYAM IN A KENTISH ROSE GARDEN, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside a dial in the leafy close
Last Line: Those ruby-tinted hieroglyphs of light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Flowers; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Roses


QUATRAIN: OMAR KHAYYAM (AFTER FITZGERALD), by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sultan and slave alike have gone their way
Last Line: Seven centuries since still charms the wise to-day.
Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)


SONNET WRITTEN ON A FLY-LEAF OF 'THE RUBAIYAT', by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who deems the soul to endless death is thrall
Last Line: If man, dust-born, shall still return to dust?
Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)


THE NEW RUBAIYAT, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old omar, subtle weaver of the skein
Last Line: Her eyes search deep and long, and make it thine.
Subject(s): Faith; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Wisdom; Belief; Creed


THE SOUL'S RUBAIYAT: 1, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of him who walked a thousand years ago
Last Line: Why dream I, mad? All dreams for man are vain.
Subject(s): Death; God; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Salvation; Soul; Truth; Dead, The


THE SOUL'S RUBAIYAT: 2, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The I, the creature man, unto my soul
Last Line: That god in man is love in human care.
Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Love; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Soul


THE SOUL'S RUBAIYAT: PREFACE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: O pars awake! The humming-bird's a-wing
Last Line: In omar's harp, why wake despair's carouse?
Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)


TO OMAR KHAYYAM, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Omar, the roses blossom by your grave
Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)


TO THE ROSE-TREE FROM OMAR'S GRAVE PLANTED AT FITZGERALD'S, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alike from alien lips one music flows
Last Line: His dream's interpreter.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883); Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)


TOAST TO OMAR KHAYYAM; AN EAST ANGLICAN ECHO-CHORUS, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this red wine, where memory's eyes seem glowing
Last Line: Omar khayyam!
Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore
Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)


UNDER WHICH KING (VERSES READ AT OMAR KHAYYAM CLUB, 1903), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under which king?' you ask, my friend
Last Line: The opiate of the interval!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)


VERSES READ AT THE DINNER OF THE OMAR KHAYYAM CLUB, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas swift who said that people 'view
Last Line: Hail! Omar khayyam, hail! Once more!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)


VERSES WRITTEN FOR THE MENU OF THE OMAR KHAYYAM CLUB (1), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Salaam to omar! We that meet tonight
Last Line: Therefore to omar once again -- salaam!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)


VERSES WRITTEN FOR THE MENU OF THE OMAR KHAYYAM CLUB (2), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses and wine your omar brings
Last Line: We drink, not memory, but hope.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122)