Omar Khajjam se kwatryne (roebaijat) (wat ongeveer 900 jaar gelede in Persies geskryf is), is in die tweede helfte van die negentiende eeu deur Edward FitzGerald in poëtiese vorm vry na Engels vertaal is. FitzGerald het altesaam net oor die honderd kwatryne, hoofsaaklik in jambiese pentameter, met ʼn rymskema aaba die lig laat sien. Die…
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Omar Khayyám – vertaling in Afrikaans
Omar Khayyám – vertaal deur Daniel Hugo Rubaiyat Omar Khayyám Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán’s Turret in a Noose of Light. This Palace that its Top to Heaven threw, And Kings…