Quatrains Attributed to OmarKhayyâm - Concordance for Quatrains 1-40

(A single click on the quatrain/stanza number (= weblog Quatrain number) or mesraa'/first line will take you to the quatrain/stanza)

D=Dashti; F=Forughi; H=Hedāyat; FG=FitzGerald 5th; S=Saidi

Qtn#	1st mesraa'	D	F	H	FG	S
1	دوری که درآن آمدن و رفتن ماست	1	34	10	-	75
2	اجزای پیاله ای که در هم پیوست	22	22	44	85	66
3	یک قطرۀ آب بود وبا دریا شد	9	97	41	-	64
4	دارنده چو ترکیب طبایع آراست	19	31	11	86	35
5	هر ذرّه که بر روی زمینی بوده است	37	50	58¹	cf. 19	‏86
6	چون ابر به نوروز رخ لاله بشست	62	24	62	cf. 23	93
7	وفت سحراست خیز ای مایۀ ناز	16	113	115	cf. 3	26
8	این بحر وجود امده بیرون ز نهفت	2	14	8	-	74
9	از دی که گذشت هیچ از آن یاد مکن	54	136	-	-	123
10	چون روزی و عمر بیش و کم نتوان کرد	73	74	27	-	113
11	بر چشم تو عالم ارچه می آراست	66	69	45	-	111
12	می خور که به زیر گل بسی خواهی خفت	17	-	47	63/24	88
13	می خور که فلک بهر هلاک من و تو	62a²	152	64	-	-
14	بر سنگ زدم دوش سبوی کاشی	40	164	67	-	81
15	ای پیر خردمند پگه تر بر خیز	38	112	59	-	87
16	ایّام زمانه از کسی دارد ننگ	57	118	127	-	-
17	جاوید نیم چو اندر این دهر مقیم	47	127	93	-	9
18	ای آنکه نتیجۀ چهار و هفتی	15	160	29	-	94
19	چون عمر بسر رسد چه بغداد و چه بلخ	48	53	95	-	10
20	گیرم تو به ادراک معما نرسی	49	161	4	-	-

¹ Hedāyat thinks it is doubtful that this quatrain is Khayyam's

²so numbered by L.P. Elwell-Sutton, In Search of Omar Khayyam

A concordance of this kind is useful to me and may be useful to others, especially for those interested in FitzGerald's use of the quatrains and for the excellent translations of Ahmad Saidi. I am in sympathy with those who see it as useless, since it appeared that way to me before I could get the entries to find something approaching their proper place on this page. The fault is mine not Squarespace's.

Quatrains 21-40 lead with FitzGerald's adaptations and search, primarily through Heron-Allen and Arberry, for those quatrains which 'inspired' each of the stanzas listed by first lines below. References are also made here to the quatrain numbers used by Dashti, Forughi-Ghani, Hedayat and Saidi when they include a quatrain similar or identical to the Heron-Allen/Arberry 'source-quatrain.'

FG=FitzGerald 5th; D=Dashti; F=Forughi; H=Hedāyat; S=Saidi

Qtn#	1^st line	FG	D	F	H	S
21	Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring	7	-	-	-	5
22	A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,	12	-	175	98*	16
23	Some for the Glories of this World; and some	13	-	41	90*	33
24	They say the Lion and Lizard keep	18	-	7	54	83
25	And this reviving Herb whose tender Green	20	-	51	63	89
26	Ah, my Belovéd, fill the Cup that clears	21	64	121	130*	-
27	For some we loved, the loveliest and the best	22	-	95	38	136
28	Myself when young did eagerly frequent	27	27	134	37	134
29	Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit	54	-	-	84*	-
30	You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse	55	-	-	77	-
31	Ah, but my Computations, People say,	57	70	129	-	47
32	Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!	63	17	-	47	88
33	Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who	64	14	111	46	120
34	The Revelations of the Devout and Learn'd	65	3	54	12	57
35	We are no other than a moving row/ But helpless pieces of the Game He plays	68/69;	6/26;	122/-;	105/50;	63/72
36	The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,	71	-	-	26	129
37	And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky	72	-	48	34	71
38	Oh, Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin	80	-	-	-	41
39	Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!	96	-	63	35	140
40	Yon rising Moon that looks for us again--	100	63	2	112	15

Where Hedayat has a quatrain with an asterix, this means that he had doubts whether the quatrain was authentic Khayyam. This concordance will not be difficult to follow (it is my best shot for now in getting it to lie uniformly on the page). For the double quatrain 35, under 'F' (Forughi) you will read '122/-' ; the dash means that Forughi-Ghani do not include the second quatrain, and all other dashes in the table represent non-inclusion as well.

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