Sobriety doth dry up all delight, And drunkenness doth drown my sense outright; There is a middle state, it is my life – Not altogether drunk, nor sober quite. Now with its joyful prime my age i...
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 (...