| This Illuminated Calligraphy Manuscript has provided me with a storehouse of design possibilities for greeting cards and objects in my Product Store. The text comes from Omar Khayyam. He is probably the most familiar, to Westerners, of all the great Persian poets. |
| From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam CALLIGRAPHY MANUSCRIPT |
| Tannia May is the Owner, Designer and Manager of this Website. |
| Tannia May is the Owner, Designer and Manager of this Website. |
| This piece is available as a poster. To view go HERE |
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| Dreaming when Dawn's left hand was in the sky I heard a voice within the tavern cry, "Awake, my little ones and fill the cup Before Life's liquor in its cup be dry". And, as the cock crew, those who stood before The tavern shouted--"Open then the door. You know how little while we have to stay And, once departed, may return no more". Come fill the cup, and in the fire of Spring, The winter garment of repentance fling: The bird of time has but a little way To fly--and lo! the bird is on the wing. And look--a thousand blossoms with the day woke--and a thousand scatter'd into clay And this first summer month that brings the rose Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away. With me upon some strip of herbage strown That just divides the desert from the sown, Where name of slave and sultan scarce is known And pity Sultan Mahmud on his throne. Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough, A flask of wine, a book of verse--and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness-- And Wilderness is Paradise enow. |
