<Li> The famed "skull and roses" poster for a Grateful Dead show at the Avalon Ballroom done by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse was adapted from Edmund J. Sullivan's illustrations for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam . </Li> <Li> The work influenced the 2004 concept album The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam by the Italian group Milagro acustico (it). </Li> <Li> The song "Beautiful Feeling" by Australian singer - songwriter Paul Kelly, on 2004 album Ways and Means, includes the lyrics "A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thee, lying on a blanket underneath that big old spreading tree ." This song was used as the theme song in the 2004 Australian television drama, Fireflies . </Li> <Li> The 1953 Robert Wright - George Forrest musical Kismet, adapted from a play by Edward Knoblock, contains a non-singing character, Omar (it is implied that he is the poet himself), who recites some of the couplets in the Fitzgerald translation . </Li>

What is the meaning of the poem rubaiyat