Sol 6.1

  1. عش أنت أني مت بعدك

    وأطل إلى ماشئت صدك

    Live on—I have died in your absence.

    And prolong your rejection as long as you wish.

  2. ماكان ضرك لو عدلت

    أما رأت عيناك قدك

    What harm would it have done you to be fair,

    (Have your eyes not seen your own figure?)

  3. وجعلت من جفني متكأً

    ومن عيني مهدك

    To make of my eyelid a resting place,

    And of my eye your cradle,

  4. ورفعت بي عرش الهوى

    ورفعت فوق العرش بندك

    To raise through me the throne of love,

    And raise your banner above the throne,

  5. وأعدت للشعراء سيدهم

    وللعشاق عبدك

    To restore to poets their master,

    And to lovers, your slave?

  6. أغضاضه ياروض إن

    أنا شاقني فشممت وردك

    Is it shameful, O garden, if

    Your roses stirred my longing and I breathed their scent?

  7. أنقى من الفجر الضحوك

    فهل أعرت الفجر خدك

    Purer than the smiling dawn—

    So have you lent the dawn your cheek?

  8. وأرق من طبع النسيم

    فهل خلعت عليه بردك

    And gentler than the breeze's nature—

    So have you bestowed your mantle upon it?

  9. وألذ من كأس النديم

    فهل أبحت الكأس شهدك

    And sweeter than the drinking companion's cup—

    So have you granted the cup your honey?

  10. وحياة عينك وهي عندي

    مثلما الأيمان عندك

    And by the life of your eye, which to me

    Is what oaths are to you:

  11. ماقلب أمك إن تفارقها

    ولم تبلغ أشدك

    Your mother's heart, were you to leave her

    Before you had come of age,

  12. فهوت عليك بصدرها

    يوم الفراق لتستردك

    And she flung herself upon you, clasping you to her breast,

    On the day of parting, to reclaim you,

  13. بأشد من خفقان قلبي

    يوم قيل:خفرت عهدك

    Would pound no harder than my heart did

    The day it was said, 'You have broken your pledge.'