ظبي خزّ بلحاظه — Abu Alfayd Alkitani — Saqi

ظبي خزّ بلحاظه
بين البوادي والحواضر
A gazelle has pierced me with his glances
Between the deserts and the towns.
إني قتيل حسامه
سهم الجفون لديه باتر
I am slain by his sword;
His eyelids' arrow is keen-edged.
لي في الغرام صبابة
قد أسكرت كل الضمائر
In love I have an ardent longing
That has intoxicated all hearts.
أهل السرى عني سرى
طيب الكرى لذات مرائر
O night travelers, from me has departed
The sweetness of sleep; pleasures are bitter.
نجم الدياجي أعارني
عينا أبيت لديه ساهر
The star of dark nights lent me
An eye; beside him I spend the night awake.
يا حبذا فيك الهنا
إن كان وصل فيك حاضر
How lovely is the bliss in you,
If union with you is at hand.
لا أختشي في حبكم
من أجلكم موتا وقاصر
In loving you, I do not fear
Death for your sake—and I fall short.
يا قلب هم يا شوق قم
يا بدر ريم إنني صابر
O heart, wander in love; O longing, rise!
O full-moon gazelle, I am patient.
طرفي مضى صبري انقضى
قلبي أملي الدفاتر
My gaze is gone; my patience is spent.
My heart, dictate to the notebooks.
يا ظبي صل يا دهر صل
يا عين سل بدري جائر
O gazelle, grant union; O time, grant union!
O eye, ask; my full moon is unjust.
سلب الحجا بحديقة
والقلب فيها عليها طائر
He stole reason in a garden,
And the heart within it flies above it.
غصن على غصن على
غصن على غصن الجواهر
A branch upon a branch upon
A branch upon the branch of jewels.
أبدى لوجه جماله
قلبي حصل فيه دائر
He revealed his beauty to a face;
My heart came to circle within it.
أسجد لديه مصليا
بما يلوح لدى المقابر
I prostrate before him, praying,
Through what gleams beside the graves.
لم نشتكي ببعده
حبي معي والطرف ناكر
We did not complain of his distance;
My beloved is with me, though the eye denies him.
لا أكتفي بوصاله
لو دار دهر الدهر زائر
I am not satisfied with union with him,
Even if he came round as a visitor for all eternity.