Sol 6.1

  1. أَيُنْكِرُ الوَجْدُ أَنِّي فِي الهَوىَ شَحِبُ

    وَدُونَ كُلِّ دُخَانٍ سَاطِعٍ لَهِبُ

    Can longing deny that I am pale with love,

    When beneath all rising smoke lies a flame?

  2. وَمَا سَلَوتُ كَمَا ظَنَّ الوِشَاةُ وَلاَ

    أَسْلُو كَمَا يَتَرجَّى العَاذِلُ التَّعِبُ

    And I have not ceased to love, as the slanderers thought, nor

    Will I cease to love, as the weary reproacher hopes.

  3. فَإِنْ بَكَى لِصَبَابَاتِي عَذُولُ هَوىً

    فَلى بِمَا مِنْهُ يَبْكِى عَاذِلي طَرَبُ

    So if a reproacher of love weeps for my ardent longings,

    Then what makes my reproacher weep brings me rapture.

  4. نَاشَدْتُكَ الَّلهَ يَا رُوحي اذْهُبَى كَلَفاً

    بِحُبِّ قَوْمٍ عَنِ الجَرْعَاءِ قَدْ ذَهَبُوا

    I adjure you by God, O my soul: depart in ardent longing

    For love of a people who have left al-Jarʿāʾ.

  5. لاَ تَسْأَلِيْهُمْ ذِمَاماً فِي مَحَبَّتِهمْ

    فَطَالَمَا قَدْ وَفَا بِالذِّمَةِ العَرَبُ

    Do not ask them for a pledge in your love for them;

    For the Arabs have long kept faith with their pledges.

  6. هُمْ أَهْلُ وُدِّي وَهَذَا وَاجِبٌ لَهُمُ

    وَإِنَّمَا وُدهُمْ لي فَهْوَ لاَ يَجِبُ

    They are worthy of my love, and this is their due;

    But their love for me is not a duty.

  7. هُمْ أَلْبَسُونِي سِقَاماً مِنْ جُفُونِهِمُ

    أَصْبَحْتُ أَرْفُلُ فِيهِ وَهْوَ يَنْسَحِبُ

    They clothed me in sickness from their eyelids;

    I now strut in it as it trails behind me.

  8. وَصَيَّرَتْ أَدْمُعي حُمْراً خُدُودُهمُ

    فَكَيْفَ أَجْحَدُ مَا مَنُّوا وَمَا وَهَبُوا

    And their cheeks have turned my tears red;

    So how can I deny what they bestowed and what they gave?

  9. هَلِ السَّلاَمَةُ إِلاَّ أَنْ أَمُوتَ بِهِمْ

    وَجْداً وَإِلاَّ فبُقْيَاىَ هُوَ العَطَبُ

    Is there any safety but in dying for them

    Of longing? Otherwise, my survival is ruin.

  10. إِنْ يَسْلُبُوا البَعْضَ مِنِّي فَالجَميعُ لَهُمْ

    وَإِنّ أَشْرفَ أَجْزَائِي الَّذِي سَلَبُوا

    If they take a part of me, the whole belongs to them;

    And indeed, the noblest part of me is what they took.

  11. لَوْ تَعْلَمُ العَذَبَاتُ المَايسَاتُ بِمَنْ

    قَدْ بَانَ عَنْهَا إِذَنْ مَا اخْضَرَّتِ العَذَبُ

    If the swaying boughs had known who

    Had left them, those boughs would not have grown green.

  12. وَلَوْ دَرَى مَنْهُلُ الوَادِي الذَّي وَرَدُوا

    مَنْ وَارِدُوا مَائِهِ لاَهْتَزَّهُ الطَرَبُ

    And had the valley's watering place they visited known

    Who came to its water, rapture would have shaken it.

  13. إِنِّي لأَكْتُمُ أَنْفَاسِي إِذَا ذُكِرُوا

    كَليْلاَ يُحرِّقَهُمْ مِنْ زَفْرَتي اللَّهَبُ

    I truly stifle my breaths when they are mentioned,

    Lest the flame from my sigh should burn them.

  14. وَتُرْسِلُ الدَّمْعَ عَيْني فِي مَنَازِلِهِمْ

    كَيْلاَ تُسَابِقَهَا فِي سَحِّهَا السُّحُبُ

    And my eye pours forth tears at their dwellings,

    Lest the clouds outstrip it in its downpour.

  15. كَذَا لِكُلِّ مُحِبٍّ غَيْرَةٌ لَهُمُ

    وَعِنْدَ كُلِّ غَيوُرٍ فِطْنَةٌ عَجَبُ

    Such is every lover's jealousy for them;

    And every jealous lover has wondrous insight.

  16. أُسَائِلُ البَانَ عَنْ مَيْلِ النَّسِيمِ بِهِمْ

    سُؤَالَ مَنْ لَيْسَ يُدْرَى فِيهِ مَا السَّبَبُ

    I ask the bān trees about the breeze's swaying them,

    As one to whom the reason for it is unknown.

  17. وَتِلْكَ آثَارُ لِينٍ مِنْ قُدُودِهِمُ

    مَرَّتْ بِهَا الرِّيحُ فَاهْتَزَّتْ لَهَا القُضُبُ

    And those are traces of suppleness from their forms:

    The wind passed over them, and the slender branches swayed in response.