A note from Jack King
I was skimming through a book entitled “The World’s Great Speeches” and ran across one delivered on December 8, 1897 by the US Ambassador to Great Britain, John Hay, before the Omar Khayamm Club of London. Here is an excerpt from the speech. I hope you enjoy it:
The exquisite beauty, the [...]

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A note from Stan
Has anyone had a problem contacting or finding or using this site? Please let me know if you have had a problem. The lease (which I had thought was two years in length) is nearly up, and if I would need to make a change in server space, we are approaching a [...]

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A project
Here is the second installment of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam from Edward Fitzgerald’s translation. We are retaining the accents and spelling conventions of Fitgerald’s text in the hope that readers will adapt their reading to an older pronunciation.
If the first nine quatrains amount to introduction, then these eleven quatrains might be considered the [...]

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A poem by Thomas Thornburg from Ancient Letters

Setting this down for you to keep
(White snows deepen the white night)
When you are gone from me in sleep.
Still the night deepens and the deep
Muffles your face, the face of forms from sight
Setting this down for you. To keep
This human faith with you I steep
These words, and not [...]

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