ديوان رامي تحت حاشية الصبا

ديوان رامي تحت حاشية الصبا

عذب عليه من الرواة زحام

عذب عليه من الرواة زحام

Rami's poetry collection, beneath the hem of youth,

The Diwan of Rami under the Margin of Youth

is sweet, with a throng of reciters gathered around it.

Many narrators swarmed to its sweetness

بالأمس بل صدى النهى وَسمِيَّه

بالأمس بل صدى النهى وَسمِيَّه

واليوم للتالى الولىّ سجام

واليوم للتالى الولىّ سجام

Yesterday its first rain quenched the thirst of minds;

Yesterday, nay the echo of prohibition and fasting

and today its following rain pours abundantly for the reader.

And today for the next, the first a muzzle

شعر جرى فيه الشباب كأنه

شعر جرى فيه الشباب كأنه

جنبات روض طَلَّهن غمام

جنبات روض طَلَّهن غمام

Verse through which youth flows, as though it were

Poetry flowed, wherein youth was as though

the expanses of a garden that clouds have sprinkled with dew.

The sides of a garden overcast by clouds

في كل بيت مجلس ومدامة

في كل بيت مجلس ومدامة

وبكل باب وقفة وغرام

وبكل باب وقفة وغرام

In every verse, a gathering and wine;

In each verse a gathering and wine

and at every door, a pause and love.

And by each gate a standstill and passion

يا راميا غرض الكلام يصيبه

يا راميا غرض الكلام يصيبه

لك منزع في السهل ليس يرام

لك منزع في السهل ليس يرام

O Rami, archer who strikes the mark of speech,

O Rami your words hit their mark

yours is a style in simple verse that none can attain.

You have a purpose in the plain, not to be denied

خذ في مراميك المدى بعد المدى

خذ في مراميك المدى بعد المدى

إن الشباب وراءه الأيام

إن الشباب وراءه الأيام

In your aims, reach farther and farther;

Take in your sights distance after distance

for youth has the days ahead of it.

For youth, after it are the days

أما زهير فقد سما هرم به

أما زهير فقد سما هرم به

ولتسمون بشعرك الأهرام

ولتسمون بشعرك الأهرام

As for Zuhayr, Harim indeed rose high through him;

As for Zuhair he made his old age soar

and through your poetry the Pyramids shall surely rise.

And with your poetry you shall make the pyramids soar

فخذ النبوغ عليه وارق رقيَّه

فخذ النبوغ عليه وارق رقيَّه

ولكل بدر مرتقى وتمام

ولكل بدر مرتقى وتمام

So learn genius from him, and rise as he rose;

So take genius as your own and gently lift it

and every full moon has its ascent and fullness.

For each full moon a rising and completeness