Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

The moving finger is related to the idea of time passing, and once something is done, it remains in the past because time only moves forward. 

The excerpt from FitzGerald's The Rubái’yát of Omar Khayyám poetically describes the dawn, signaling the start of a new day. The sun rises, chasing away the stars and darkness, and its first rays...

The topics of discussion for the sages in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám were "the Two Worlds," or earth and heaven.

The line "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on..." is not from a Shakespearean work. It originates from the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam, a Persian poet, mathematician, and scientist....

Samuel Taylor Coleridge did not translate the Rubaiyat. The first English translation of this collection of poems by Persian poet Omar Khayyám was completed by Irish poet Edward FitzGerald in 1859,...