The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Illustrated

The Rub iy t of Omar Khayy m is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayy m, a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts per line, hence the word rub iy t, meaning "quatrains".