این قافله عمر عجب میگذردThis caravan of life is strangely passing by;
دریاب دمی که با طرب میگذردseize the breath that passes in delight.
ساقی غم فردای حریفان چه خوریCupbearer, why grieve for tomorrow?
پیش آر پیاله را که شب میگذردBring the cup. The night is passing.
Omar Khayyam, a rubāʿī
The house
Named for the poet who made wine immortal
Omar Khayyam was an astronomer and mathematician of Nishapur, and the poet of the Rubáiyát. The house bottles wine, sparkling and spirits in his name, for the hour he wrote about.
- 1048
- Born in Nishapur, Persia
- 1070
- Solves cubic equations with conic sections
- 1079
- His Jalali calendar is adopted