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

1859 edition, stanza 6

1859 edition, stanza 6

And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine

High piping Péhlevi, with 'Wine! Wine! Wine!

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

That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine.