Edward Fitzgerald
Edward Fitzgerald
Edward FitzGeraldwas an English poet and writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The writing of his name as both FitzGerald and Fitzgerald is seen. The use here of FitzGerald conforms with that of his own publications, anthologies such as Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse, and most reference books up until about the 1960s...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth31 March 1809
leaves roses thousand
Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say: / Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?
buy half played robbed robe stuff wonder
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.