FOR woman due allowance make!Form’d of a crooked rib was she, —By Heaven she could not straight’ned be.Attempt to bend her, and she’ll break;If left alone, more crooked grows m...
Medieval poetry, in spite of its literary images, was in truth quite pathetic in describing a woman. Naturally, all women were ‘fair beauties’, but, like in painting, poetry rarely went mu...
http://www.therubaiyat.com/ Complete Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. I know some verses relatively well in Russian, but haven’t found them in the English translation yet. One of my favourite is this (...