A Book of Verses underneath the Bow

A Book of Verses underneath the Bow. E.A. Robinson
In: Untriangulated stars : letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson to Harry de Forest Smith, 1890-1905. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1947. Pp. 110

Quoted in: Eliot Possessed. New York, 1989.

A slab of offal …

A slab of offal ... Edward Heron-Allen.
In: Edward Heron-Allen’s journal of the Great War : from Sussex shore to Flanders Fields. Brian W. Harvey and Carol Fitzgerald. Lewes : Sussex Record Society, 2002.

1 quatrain. Mentioned and quoted by Bob Forrest in: Notes to the Main Essay on the Rubaiyat (Note 3C).

Supplementary Rubaíyat of Omar Khayyám

Supplementary Rubaíyat of Omar Khayyám. EVOE [E.V. Knox] In: The Second Book of the Omar Khayyám Club 1910-1929. London : Printed for the members for private circulation, 1931. Pp. 149-151

(Dedicated, with my own consent, to the Secretary of State for Home Affairs)

16 quatrains

The vicar’s warning

The vicar’s warning. Arthur Wimperis
In: The Second Book of the Omar Khayyám Club 1910-1929. London : Printed for the members for private circulation, 1931. Pp. 117-119

Lines written by the  Rev. Ernest Umbrage, Vicar of High Purberleigh, to his Nephew, on learning that the latter has become a Member of the Omar Khayyám Club

14 quatrains

Twenty years after

Twenty years after. October 13th, 1892 December 14th, 1912. Charles Geake
In: The Second Book of the Omar Khayyám Club 1910-1929. London : Printed for the members for private circulation, 1931. Pp. 39-40

11 quatrains (plus one quatrain from FitzGerald’s translation)

Rubaiyat of Groper Trump

Rubaiyat of Groper Trump. R.K.R. Thornton. Exeter : Rectory Press, 2020. 65 p.

An angry collection of Rubaiyat (quatrains in Fitzgerald’s Omar Khayyam form) castigating President Trump, his Republican enablers, and all his disgraceful crew. The sharpest attack since Dryden and Swift, it mixes wit, comedy, and annoyance. (From Amazon)