Omar Khayyam (152) “so many hearts have been left bleeding”

Juan Cole 07/14/2012

A shame that bankruptcy has left
us without capital in hand,
and that so many hearts have been
left bleeding by the blade of fate.
No one has come back from that world
with word of vanished travelers.

Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 152/ Arberry 1949

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page