Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink!… — Edward Fitzgerald Drink Copy Share Image
Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry: 'Awake, my Little ones, and… — Edward Fitzgerald Dreams Copy Share Image
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou. — Edward Fitzgerald Book Copy Share Image
Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of… — Edward Fitzgerald Carols Copy Share Image
“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under… — Edward FitzGerald Copy Share Image
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. — Edward Fitzgerald Drop Copy Share Image
“But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this chequer-board of Nights and Days Hither and thither moves, and checks and… — Edward FitzGerald Copy Share Image
“Tis all a chequer board of nights and days, where destiny with men for pieces plays; hither and thither, and mates and… — Edward Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press, End in the Nothing all Things end in - Yes - Then… — Edward FitzGerald Thou art Copy Share Image
“One thing is certain and the rest is Lies;/The Flower that once has blown forever dies.” — Edward FitzGerald Flower Copy Share Image
“With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with my own hand labour'd it to grow: And this was all… — Edward FitzGerald Wisdom Copy Share Image
“And fear not lest Existence closing your Account, and mine, should know the like no more; The Eternal Saki from that Bowl… — Edward FitzGerald Copy Share Image
“Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire, Cast on the Darkness into which… — Edward FitzGerald Soul on fire Copy Share Image
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes. — Edward Fitzgerald Ball Copy Share Image
There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see. — Edward Fitzgerald Door Copy Share Image
If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us… — Edward Fitzgerald God Copy Share Image
“Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and… — Edward FitzGerald Games Copy Share Image
“Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth;… — Edward FitzGerald Copy Share Image
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the… — Edward Fitzgerald Buy Copy Share Image
Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith… — Edward Fitzgerald Forgiveness Copy Share Image
Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell… — Edward Fitzgerald Darkness Copy Share Image
