Sol 6.1

  1. لَقَد أَصَختُ إِلى نَجواكَ مِن قَمَرٍ

    وَبِتُّ أُدلِجُ بَينَ الوَعيِ وَالنَظَرِ

    Indeed, I have listened to your whispered confidences, O moon,

    And I spent the night journeying between understanding and sight.

  2. لا أَجتَلي مُلَحاً حَتّى أَعي مُلَحاً

    عَدلاً مِنَ الحُكمِ بَينَ السَمعِ وَالبَصَرِ

    I behold no charms until I take in witty words,

    In fair judgment between hearing and sight.

  3. وَقَد مَلَأتُ سَوادَ العَينِ مِن وَضَحٍ

    فَقَرَّطِ السَمعَ قِرطَ الأُنسِ مِن سَمَرِ

    And I have filled my eye's black pupil with brightness;

    So adorn my hearing with companionship's earring, made of nighttime talk.

  4. فَلَو جَمَعتَ إِلى حُسنٍ مُحاوَرَةً

    حُزتَ الجَمالَينِ مِن خُبرٍ وَمِن خَبَرِ

    So, were you to add conversation to beauty,

    You would gain both beauties: of firsthand experience and of report.

  5. وَإِن صَمَمتَ فَفي مَرآكَ لي عِظَةٌ

    قَد أَفصَحَت لِيَ عَنها أَلسُنُ العِبَرِ

    And if you remain silent, the sight of you holds a lesson for me,

    Which the tongues of lessons have made plain to me.

  6. تَمُرُّ مِن ناقِصٍ حَوراً وَمُكتَمِلٍ

    كَوراً وَمِن مُرتَقٍ طَوراً وَمُنحَدِرِ

    You pass, now diminished through waning, now full

    Through waxing; at times ascending, at times descending.

  7. وَالناسُ مِن مُعرِضٍ يَلهو وَمُلتَفِتٍ

    يَرعى وَمِن ذاهِلٍ يَنسى وَمُدَّكِرِ

    And among people, some turn away and play, while others turn

    To take heed; some are oblivious and forget, while others remember.

  8. يَلهو بِساحاتِ أَقوامٍ تُحَدِّثُنا

    وَقَد قَضوا فَمَضَوا إِنّا عَلى الأَثَرِ

    He plays in peoples' courtyards, which tell us—

    Though those peoples have died and gone—that we follow in their wake.

  9. فَإِن بَكَيتُ وَقَد يَبكي الخَليلُ فَعَن

    شَجوٍ يُفَجِّرُ عَينَ الماءِ في الحَجَرِ

    So if I weep—and a close friend may weep—it is from

    A grief that makes a spring of water gush from stone.