Sol 6.1

  1. وَقَفَ الطَيفُ بِجَفنٍ كَالطَلَلْ

    سائِلاً أَينَ الكَرى أَينَ رَحَلْ

    The dream-phantom stood by an eyelid like a ruined dwelling,

    Asking, 'Where is slumber? Where has it gone?'

  2. إِنَّما كانَ الكَرى يَسكُنُها

    فَالكَرى مِن وَصلِهِم ثُمَّ اِنتَقَل

    Slumber alone used to dwell there;

    For slumber came of union with them, then departed.

  3. فَجَرى الفَجرُ وَأَخفى ناصِعاً

    فَالتَقى الماءُ بِمَقدورٍ نَزَل

    Then dawn streamed forth and hid a radiant form;

    And the water met a fate sent down.

  4. إِنَّهُ يا طَيفُ طوفانٌ طَغى

    وَاِبنُ نوحٍ لَيسَ يُنجيهِ الجَبَل

    It is, O phantom, a flood overflowing all bounds,

    And the mountain cannot save Noah's son.

  5. إِنَّ قَلبي مِن قُلوبٍ لَم تُبِن

    سِرَّها لَو لَم تُبَيِّنهُ المُقَل

    Indeed, my heart is among hearts that would not have revealed

    Their secret, had the eyes not made it plain.

  6. حالَتِ الأَشياءُ عَن حالاتِها

    فَتَوَلّى الماءُ إيقادَ الغُلَل

    Things have changed from what they were,

    So water undertook to kindle burning thirst.

  7. فَتَرى الدَمعَ دِماءً لَم تَسِل

    مِن سُيوفٍ بِجُفونٍ لَم تُسَل

    So you see tears as blood that has not flowed

    From swords in eyelid-sheaths that have not been drawn.

  8. وَعَذولٍ هَبِلَتهُ أُمُّهُ

    لَم يَقُل قَولاً فَلا يَعلُ هُبَل

    And a censurer—may his mother be bereaved of him—

    Has said no word—so let Hubal not be exalted.

  9. وَحَبيبٍ لَم أَقُل يَهجُرُني

    إِنَّما يُهجَرُ مَن قالَ وَصَل

    And a beloved—I never said, 'He forsakes me';

    Only one who has said, 'He granted union,' is forsaken.

  10. رُبَّ بُستانِ حَديثٍ بَينَنا

    فَتَّحَ العَتبُ بِهِ وَردَ الخَجَل

    Many a garden of conversation between us—

    Reproach made the roses of bashfulness bloom within it.

  11. لا يُمَلُّ الوَردُ فِي وَجنَتِهِ

    وَقُصَارَى كُلِّ وَردٍ أَن يُمَل

    One never tires of the rose upon his cheek,

    And every rose's ultimate fate is to pall.