كمhow many ثناياfront teeth وكمand how many عيونٍeyes مراضِlanguid
كم ثنايا وكم عيونٍ مراضِ
منof أقاحٍdaisies ونَرجسٍand narcissi فيin الرياضthe gardens
من أقاحٍ ونَرجسٍ في الرياض
How many front teeth, and how many languid eyes
How many twigs and how many eyes ailing,
of daisies and narcissi in the gardens!
Of narcissus and lilies in the gardens.
كمhow many خدودٍcheeks مَصُونةٍprotected منof شقيقٍanemones
كم خدودٍ مَصُونةٍ من شقيقٍ
لمnot (past negation) تُبَذَّلْbe offered up للَّثْمِfor kissing أوor للعِضاضfor biting
لم تُبَذَّلْ للَّثْمِ أو للعِضاض
How many guarded cheeks of anemones,
How many cheeks protected from the anemone,
never offered up for kissing or biting!
That were not given to kissing or biting.
اعترضْexamine باطنَthe interior of الشقيقِthe anemone ففيهfor within it
اعترضْ باطنَ الشقيقِ ففيه
طُرَفٌdelights ماnot يملُّهاtires of them ذوone who undertakes اعتراضexamination
طُرَفٌ ما يملُّها ذو اعتراض
Examine the anemone's interior, for within it are
Cut through the inner anemone, for in it
delights no observer tires of:
Is a look that does not bore of objections.
جُمَمٌtresses سُرِّحتwere combed بلاwithout مُشُطٍa comb أوor
جُمَمٌ سُرِّحت بلا مُشُطٍ أو
طُرَرٌforelocks قُصِّصَتْwere trimmed بلاwithout مقراضshears
طُرَرٌ قُصِّصَتْ بلا مقراض
tresses combed without a comb, or
Unkempt locks unleashed without a comb,
forelocks trimmed without shears.
Or braids told without shearing.
حُمْرَةٌredness فوقabove خُضْرةgreenness وسواءٌand a center
حُمْرَةٌ فوق خُضْرة وسواءٌ
بينbetween هذينthese two مُعْلَمٌmarked ببياضwith white
بين هذين مُعْلَمٌ ببياض
Redness above greenness, and a center
Redness over greenness and equality
between these two, marked with white.
Between the two, made white by whiteness.
ذاthis خزامىlavender ذاthis خُرَّمٌkhurram (a flower) ذاكthat خيرwallflower (word continues)
ذا خزامى ذا خُرَّمٌ ذاك خير
يٌّending of 'wallflower' قضىhas decreed ليfor me بِخَيْرِهِwith its goodness خيرُthe best قاضjudge
يٌّ قضى لي بِخَيْرِهِ خيرُ قاض
This is lavender, this is khurram, that is wallflower,
The bleary-eyed, the sleepy-eyed, the best
whose goodness the best of judges has decreed for me.
Good brought me the best of judges.
ذاthis بهارٌbahār (a yellow flower) فيin صُفْرةِthe yellow pallor of العاشِقِthe lover المَيْthe dead (word continues)
ذا بهارٌ في صُفْرةِ العاشِقِ المَيْ
تِending of 'dead' بداءِfrom the malady of الصدودِrejection والإعراضand aversion
تِ بداءِ الصدودِ والإعراض
This is bahār, yellow as the lover who died
A springtime in the yellowness of a lover made
of the malady of rejection and aversion.
Ill by the malady of aloofness and refusal.
فاسقنيهاso give it to me to drink كالنارِlike fire فَرْطَextreme degree of احمرارٍredness
فاسقنيها كالنارِ فَرْطَ احمرارٍ
فيin إِناءٍa vessel كالماءِlike water فَرْطَextreme degree of ابيضاضwhiteness
في إِناءٍ كالماءِ فَرْطَ ابيضاض
So give it to me to drink, like fire in its intense redness,
So give it to me like fire, excessive in redness,
in a vessel like water in its intense whiteness.
In a vessel like water, excessive in whiteness.
جلّنارٌpomegranate blossom إِناؤُهits vessel جلُّrose blossom نسريnasrīn (white rose; word continues)
جلّنارٌ إِناؤُه جلُّ نسري
نٍending of 'nasrīn' شفاءُa cure for المرضىthe sick منَfrom الأمراضdiseases
نٍ شفاءُ المرضى منَ الأمراض
Pomegranate blossom, its vessel a nasrīn rose—
A burning fire its vessel a burning
a cure that rids the sick of their diseases.
Nasrany, the cure of the sick from diseases.
Sol 6.1