An online archive of the first five editions of Edward FitzGerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

1879 edition, stanza 6

1879 edition, stanza 6

And David's lips are lockt; but in divine

High-piping Pehlevi, with 'Wine! Wine! Wine!

'Red Wine!'—the Nightingale cries to the Rose

That sallow cheek of her's to' incarnadine.