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My eyes were captivated by the charms of a gazelle,

شبت لعيني غزل مياط

1. My eyes were captivated by the charms of a gazelle,
A joyful one who came to me, slender and bright

١. شُبَّتْ لِعَيْنَيْ غَزِلٍ مَيّاطِ
سَعْدِيَّةٌ حَلَّتْ بِذِي أُراطِ

2. As flashing lightning in the darkness of night,
As if a string of pearls twined round her white neck.

٢. بِرَّاقَةٌ كَالبَرْقِ ذِي الكِشاطِ
كَأَنَّ بَيْنَ العِقْدِ وَالإِقْراطِ

3. Her saliva was sweet like the juice of ripe dates,
Her breath after sleep was a scent that captivates.

٣. سالِفَةً مِنْ جِيدِ رِيمٍ عَاطِ
بَعْدَ المَنامِ طَيِّبُ السُعاطِ

4. She was whiter than silk or the softest sateen,
Not like the complexion of peasant girls, I mean.

٤. كَأَنَّ فَوْقَ الخَزِّ وَالأَنْماطِ
أَبْيَضَ مِنْهَا لا مِنَ الرَواطِي

5. So O desirer, craving to scoop and slip,
When the censors accosted me with their whip

٥. فَأَيُّها الشَاحِجُ بِالغُطاطِ
لَمّا تَصَدَّى لِي ذَوُو الرِياطِ

6. I said, passion has found in me its right tract
To face the blend of the sweet and the compact

٦. قُلْتُ وَجَدَّ الوِرْدُ بِالفُرّاطِ
لا بُدَّ مِنْ جَبِيهَةِ الخِلاطِ

7. For I’m wont to return to the feast as a guide
With what the slovenly glutton had not espied

٧. إِنِّي لَوَرَّادٌ عَلَى الضِناطِ
ما كانَ يَرْجُو مائِحُ السِقاطِ

8. As the chipper clipping the wings with its beak
And the crawler dreaming of pits it could sneak,

٨. جَذْبِي دِلاءَ المَجْدِ وَانْتِشاطِي
مِثْلَيْنِ في كَرَّيْنِ مِنْ مِقاطِ

9. So enough of the writhing of one that’s a creep
And the raving of him who does nothing but weep.

٩. مِنْ بَقَر أَو أَدَم أَطّاطِ
إِذَا تَلاَقَى الوَهْطُ بِالأَوْهاطِ

10. My patience restrained people from my wrath’s sweep
My chewing the heads of villains with relish and heap.

١٠. أَوْرَى بِثَرْثارَيْنِ فِي الغِطْماطِ
إِفْراغَ نَجَّاخَيْنِ فِي الأَغْواطِ

11. In a horse whose gums tightly clasp the bit’s keep
At the blacksmith’s, with tongs striking hammering beat

١١. وَمَيْطُ غَرْبِي أَنْكَرُ الأَمْياطِ
عَلَيَّ أَنْمارٌ مِن اعْتِباطِي

12. I doctor the farrier’s disgraceful defeat.
My venom I serve, fatal poisonous treatment

١٢. كالحَيَّةِ المُجْتابِ بِالأَرْقاطِ
يَكْفِيك أَثْرِي القَوْلَ وَانْتِباطِي

13. In it lies ruin and bile of bitter ferment
When the bat’s wing gets cracked, I pelt

١٣. عَوَارِماً لَمْ تُرْمَ بِالإِسْقاطِ
فِيهِنَّ وَسْمٌ لازِم الأَلْباطِ

14. Stones like the swirling squall’s fierce onset
I’m a man whose glory is in engagement

١٤. سَفْعٌ وَتَخْطِيمٌ مِنَ العِلاطِ
فَقَد كَفى تَخَمُّطَ الخِماطِ

15. Routing the chieftains, them I subdue,
Ours are the pebbles and ample carpets,

١٥. وَالبَغيَ من تَعَيُّطِ العَيَّاطِ
حِلْمِي وَذَبَّ الناسَ عَنْ إِسْخاطِي

16. Noble birth multiplies in our palace halls,
Sovereignty is for us, the mighty warriors,

١٦. مَضْغِي رَؤُوسَ البُزْلِ وَاسْتِراطِي
فِي شَدْقَمٍ أَشْداقُهُ خَبّاطِ

17. It bowed to us while rage boiled for the detractors
Our spear is disaster for nights of dearth

١٧. عِندَ العِضاضِ مِقْصَلٍ هَماطِ
وَقَدْ أُدَاوِي نَحْطَةَ النَحّاطِ

18. Though today’s struggle has pressed down hard
It has not impaired my glory and great worth

١٨. فَصْداً وَأَسْقِي السَمَّ ذا الحَمَاطِ
فِيهِ الكَدَا وَحَقْوَة الأَوْقاطِ

19. Lo, the envy of the disdained fault-picker
Has become like the scum on frothing liquor

١٩. أَرْمِي إِذَا انْشَقَّتْ عَصَا الوَطْواطِ
بِرَجْم أَحْأَى مِقْذَف المِلاطِ

20. And Arabs, unruly or Anbat who bicker
We visited with armies wielding slick swords

٢٠. إِنِّي امرُؤٌ بِمُضَرَ اعْتِباطِي
عُراعِر الأَقْوامِ وَاخْتِباطِي

21. Until they accepted disgrace and utter loss
And the striking of their haughty heads that toss

٢١. لَنَا الحَصَى وَأَوْسَعُ البَسَاطِ
وَالحَسَبُ المُثْرِي مِنَ البَلاطِ

22. With whips below the smooth wrist that emboss
With it we walk atop the heads of toxic crowds

٢٢. وَالمُلْكُ فِي عادِيِّنَا القَعّاطِ
دانَتْ لَهُ وَالسُخْطُ لِلسُّخَّاطِ

23. Until we guide them onto the narrow ridge
So say to that foolish poet of little knowledge

٢٣. نِزارُها وَيَامِن الأَقْحاطِ
فَأَيُّها الجاذِي عَلَى القِطاطِ

24. Full of futilebabble, a real nuisance
You have cried to avoid criticism, that’s your defense

٢٤. مِنْ ذِي أَنىً أَوْ جاهِلٍ نَفّاطِ
نَحْنُ جَمَعْنَا الناس بِالمِلْطاطِ

25. And the garb of evil, ever shred and rents
Evil is the prattle of the muddle-headed

٢٥. فَأَصْبَحُوا فِي وَرْطَة الأَوْراطِ
بِمَحْبِسِ الخِنْزِيرِ وَالبِطاطِ

26. And the fraud with gossip, less than well-bred
The likes of me, when I get going in rhyme

٢٦. أَذَلَّ أَعْناقاً مِن الغَطاطِ
مِنْ حارِثٍ أَوْ ناعِقٍ قَوَّاطِ

27. Those decayed by me take up the crime
And they have seen me in many a clime

٢٧. قَدْ ماتَ قَبْلَ الغَسْلِ وَالإِحْناطِ
غَيْظاً وَأَلْقَيْنَاهُ فِي الأَقْماطِ

28. My ascent in war and later decline
Beyond my pursuit fell the ones who lack spine

٢٨. لَنَا سِرَاجَا كُلِّ لَيْلٍ غاطِ
وَرَاجِسَاتُ النَجْمِ وَالأَشْراطِ

29. Sprawled on their backs on the ground supine
When a heel stamps their heads forming a line

٢٩. وَإِنْ عرَاكُ اليَوْمِ ذِي الضِغاطِ
مَاعَكَ عِزّاً دامِيَ الحِطاطِ

30. And a broth of many stocks in the slime
Almost burst from excess, like gas trapped inside

٣٠. وَسَارَ بَغْيُ الآنِفِ النَحّاطِ
وَقَدْ غَدَتْ شامطَة الأَوْساطِ

31. Yet cool and not mixed up inside
If the milk bags of the domes its trick did hide

٣١. سَيْلاً كَسَيْلِ الزَبدِ الغِطْماطِ
وعرَبٍ عَاتِينَ أَوْ أَنْباطِ

32. On it I’d dash them right on the ground outside
A guard yelling at them with swats on their hide

٣٢. زُرْنَاهُمُ بِالجَيْشِ ذِي الأَلْغاطِ
حَتَّى رَضُوا بِالذُلِّ وَالإِيهاطِ

33. As water flows over thePrepared platforms wide
When we augment it with lashes, they chide

٣٣. وَضَرْبِ أَعْناقِهِم القُسّاطِ
بِالبِيضِ تَحْت الأَسَلِ الوَخّاطِ

34. In deafening echoes within, multiplying tide
How pleasing, as they screamed: More! Provide!

٣٤. نَعْلُو بِهَا مَسَاحِج الأَمْشاطِ
حَتَّى أَقَمْنَاهُمْ عَلى الصِراطِ

35. My charger galloping ahead of the tribe

٣٥. فَقُلْ لِذَاكَ الشاعِرِ الخَيّاطِ
وَذِي المِراءِ المِهْمَرِ الضَفّاطِ

٣٦. رُغْتَ اتِّقاءَ العَيْرِ بِالضُراطِ
وَانْشَقَّ ثَوْبُ الشَرِّ ذُو العِطاطِ

٣٧. لَبِئسَ عَضُّ الخَرِفِ المِغْلاطِ
وَالوَغْلِ ذِي النَمِيمَةِ المِخْلاطِ

٣٨. مِثْلِي إِذَا جَلَّحَ وَانْخِراطِي
وَالْتاثَ مِنِّي الوَبلُ بِالقِطاطِ

٣٩. وَقَدْ رَأَى الرَاؤُونَ بِالمَحَاطِ
تَصَعُّدِي فِي الجَرْيِ وَانْحِطاطِي

٤٠. فَطاحَ عَنْ جِدِّي ذَوُو الإِشْطاطِ
فِي مُصْمَعِدّاتٍ عَلَى السِماطِ

٤١. إِذَا تَمَطّاهُنَّ عَقْبٌ ماطِ
وَمَدُّ أَخْطاط إِلَى أَخْطاطِ

٤٢. لَولا الشَبَا طارَ مِنَ الإِفْراطِ
وَهوَ مُرِيحٌ غَيْرُ ذِي اخْتِلاطِ

٤٣. لَو أَحْلَبَتْ حَلائِب الفُسْطاطِ
عَلَيْه أَلْقاهُنَّ بِالبَلاطِ

٤٤. ناجٍ يُعَنِّيهُنَّ بِالإِبْعاطِ
وَالماءُ نَضّاحٌ عَلَى الآباطِ

٤٥. إِذَا اسْتَزَدْنَاهُنَّ بِالسِياط
في رَهَجٍ كَشُقَقِ الرِياطِ

٤٦. أَربى وَقَد صاحوا بِها يَعاطِ
مَعْجِي أَمَامَ الخَيْلِ وَالْتِبَاطِي