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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 83, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poet's Biography
First Line: Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small
Last Line: Listened, perhaps, but never talked at all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time
First Line: Shapes of all sorts and sizes, great and small
Last Line: Listened, perhaps, but never talked at all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time
Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,
That stood along the floor and by the wall:
And some loquacious Vessels were; and some
Listened, perhaps, but never talked at all.
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