Poetry Codex

Victorian

Edward FitzGerald

1809–1883

Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) was an English writer whose free translation and adaptation of the medieval Persian quatrains of Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, became one of the most quoted poems in the English language.

Reworked by FitzGerald through several editions, its meditations on wine, transience, and fate gave English verse a strikingly fatalistic, epicurean voice unlike anything else in the period.

Poems (104)

  1. II
  2. IV
  3. V.
  4. VI
  5. VIII
  6. X.
  7. XII
  8. XIII
  9. XV
  10. XVII
  11. XIX
  12. XXI
  13. XXIV
  14. XXV
  15. XXIX
  16. XXXI
  17. XXXIV
  18. XXXVI
  19. XXXVII
  20. XXXVIII
  21. XL
  22. XLI
  23. XLIV
  24. XLVII
  25. XLVIII
  26. XLVIX
  27. L.
  28. LIII
  29. LIV
  30. LVI
  31. LVII
  32. LVIII
  33. LXIV
  34. LXVI
  35. LXXI
  36. LXXII
  37. LXXV
  38. I.
  39. III
  40. VII
  41. IX
  42. XI
  43. XIV
  44. XVI
  45. XVIII
  46. XX
  47. XXII
  48. XXIII
  49. XXVI
  50. XXVII
  51. XXVIII
  52. XXX
  53. XXXII
  54. XXXIII
  55. XXXV
  56. XXXIX
  57. XLII
  58. XLIII
  59. XLV
  60. XLVI
  61. XLIX
  62. LI
  63. LII
  64. LV
  65. LIX
  66. LX
  67. LXI
  68. LXII
  69. LXIII
  70. LXV
  71. LXVII
  72. LXVIII
  73. LXIX
  74. LXX
  75. LXXIII
  76. LXXIV
  77. LXXVI
  78. LXXVII
  79. LXXVIII
  80. LXXIX
  81. LXXX
  82. LXXXI
  83. LXXXII
  84. LXXXIII
  85. LXXXIV
  86. LXXXV
  87. LXXXVI
  88. LXXXVII
  89. LXXXVIII
  90. LXXXIX
  91. XC
  92. XCI
  93. XCII
  94. XCIII
  95. XCIV
  96. XCV
  97. XCVI
  98. XCVII
  99. XCVIII
  100. XCIX
  101. C.
  102. CI
  103. Old Song
  104. The Three Arrows

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