بوركت يا زمن الربيع الناضر

ما أنت الا بهجة للناظر

Blessed are you, season of verdant spring!

You are nothing but a delight to the beholder.

ما زرت ربعاً شيقاً الا وقد

فرش المزور خدوده للزائر

Never have you visited a yearning abode without

Its host spreading his cheeks for the visitor.

اقبلت يا ملك البسيطة رافلاً

بمطارف الحسن السنيّ الباهر

You have come, O king of the earth, arrayed

In mantles of radiant, dazzling beauty.

في راية خضراء صفّت تحتها

من كل زاهرة صفوف عساكر

Beneath a green banner stand arrayed

Ranks of troops from every blossom.

ورجعت للأرض الموات حياتها

وكسوتها برد الشباب الزاهر

And you restored its life to the lifeless earth,

And clothed it in the mantle of flourishing youth.

فتضوعت ازهار كل خميلة

تجزيك بالنعماء حمد الشاكر

So the flowers of every grove breathed fragrance,

Repaying your bounty with the grateful one's praise.

نطق الحمام عن الرياض بشكرها

فاسمع ثناءك من غناء الطائر

The doves spoke for the gardens, voicing their thanks;

So hear your praise in the bird's song.

ورق دعت فوق الغصون سواجعاً

فكأنها الخطباء فوق منابر

Gray doves called above the branches, cooing,

As though they were orators upon pulpits.

جاد السماء بها النجوم فأزهرت

بنجوم أفق في السماء زواهر

The sky lavished stars upon them, and they blossomed

With stars of a horizon, radiant in heaven.

ضحكت ثغور الأرض فهي بواسم

مهما بكت عين السحاب الماطر

The earth's mouths laughed, and they are smiling

Whenever the rain-cloud's eye weeps.

نثر اللآلئ قطره فتنظمت

زهر الثرى تحكي عقود جواهر

Its rain scattered pearls, and there were strung

The soil's flowers, resembling necklaces of jewels.

فلك اليد البيضاء يا قطر الندى

كم قد سمحت بلؤلؤ متناثر

So yours is the generous white hand, O drops of dew;

How often you have bestowed scattered pearls!

خطر النسيم الغض يحمل نفحة

مسكية فيها ارتياح الخاطر

The fresh breeze glided by, bearing a breath

Of musk, in which the mind finds ease.

والشمس صاغت بالشعاع سبائكاً

يجلو النضار بها جميل مناظر

And the sun fashioned ingots from its rays,

With which pure gold brings lovely vistas to light.

وجرى لجين الماء فيه فحليت

أشجاره بمعاضد واساور

And the water's silver flowed through it, adorning

Its trees with armlets and bracelets.

أهوى الربيع لان فيه شمائلا

ممن أحب فكن بذلك عاذرى

I love spring, for in it are qualities

Of the one I love; so, for that, excuse me.

طلق عليه بهجة ونضارة

يسبي ويفتن بالمحيا السافر

Bright-faced, with joy and freshness upon him,

He captivates and enchants with his unveiled face.

عطر النسيم تحدثت انفاسه

في النشر عن ارج الحبيب العاطر

His breeze is fragrant; its breaths have spoken

In wafted perfume of the fragrant beloved's scent.

والنرجس المطلول يرنو طونه

فكأنه يرنو بطرف فاتر

And the dew-wet narcissus gazes [unclear word],

As though it gazed with a languid eye.

ويرف فيه الافحوان كأنه

ثغر يلذ به الطلا لمعاقر

And the chrysanthemum quivers there, as though it were

A mouth through which wine delights a drinker.

وإذا الشقيق تضرّجت وجناته

اضحت تضاهي خدّه بنضائر

And when the anemone's cheeks flush crimson,

They come to rival his cheek in their fresh beauty.

وإذا الوميض نضا صوارمه اتقى

منه الغدير بأدرع ومغافر

And when lightning unsheathes its swords, refuge is sought

From it by the pool, with coats of mail and helmets.

ما سحرها روت وفتنة بابل

ان الغرائب للربيع الساحر

What are Hārūt's magic and Babylon's enchantment?

Surely wonders belong to enchanting spring.

قالوا الطبيعة قلت قد خضع الحجى

دون الطبيعة للمليك القادر

They said, 'Nature.' I said, 'Reason has bowed

Not to nature, but to the all-powerful Sovereign.'

ان الذي رفع السماء هو الذي

خلق البرية فاعتقد أو كابر

Indeed, He who raised the sky is the One who

Created all creatures—so believe, or deny obstinately.