The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published, brought up to date
with a sumptuous new look.
Edward FitzGerald's much-loved, often-quoted, bestselling 1859
translation of the RUBAIYAT, with Attar's charming narrative poem, BIRD
PARLIAMENT. Also featuring an extensive new introduction with notes and
chronology.
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that put the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.