Sol 6.1

  1. للهِ أشكو شُجونًا نَدَّ طارقُها

    بِبَعضِ صَفْوي فغصَّ الأينُ والرَّبَشُ

    To God I complain of sorrows whose night-visitor made off

    With some of my serenity; then weariness and confusion choked.

  2. إني امرؤٌ واضحُ الأمجادِ مؤتبزٌ

    وليس من شيمي التَّرقيشُ والدَّغَشُ

    I am a man of evident glories, poised and ready.

    And false embellishment and deceit are not among my traits.

  3. إنْ حلَّ خطْبٌ جعلتُ اللهَ كافِلَه

    فارفضَّ بعد طُروقٍ وهْو مرتعشُ

    If calamity befell, I made God its guarantor,

    Then it dispersed after arriving by night, trembling.

  4. دع عنكَ هذا فأمرُ اللهِ ذو بِلَغٍ

    عمَّا قريبٍ يَبِين الحقُّ والرَّقَشُ

    Leave this aside; God's command reaches its goal.

    Before long, truth and falsehood become clear.

  5. واشدُدْ إلى روضةٍ كدَّاءَ مخضلةٍ

    رِحالَ شِعرِكَ والأنواءُ تعتفشُ

    And bind, for a hard-soiled, rain-soaked meadow,

    Your poetry's saddles, while the rainstorms gather.

  6. في ساحةٍ نضَّد الأعراب بُرْقَتَها

    وراودتْها هُتونٌ ثَمَّ تَنتقشُ

    In a clearing whose stony ground the Bedouins have layered,

    And pouring rain has wooed it; there it takes on patterns.

  7. أو ربوةٍ خدَّدَ البادونَ قاتِدَها

    فأينعتْ بقُراها الهيمُ والأمَشُ

    Or a hillock whose crest the nomads have furrowed,

    So thirsty camels and herbage flourished in its villages.

  8. ترصَّدتْها عوادي الرِّيح في لُججٍ

    يأبَقْنَ مِن لُجَجٍ قد رابها الجَرَشُ

    The wind's ravaging blasts stalked it amid deep waters,

    Fleeing from depths that the grinding noise had disturbed.

  9. وقفتُ فيها تجولُ العَينُ في شغفٍ

    والعِينُ في دَعَةٍ قد هالها الوَلَشُ

    I stood within it, my eye roaming with ardour,

    While the wide-eyed wild cattle, at rest, were terrified by hurried movement.

  10. فانفضَّ منها خليطٌ سامَهُ جَرَضٌ

    مِن بعدِه جَرَضٌ مِن دونه هَمَشُ

    Then a mixed herd scattered from it, afflicted by choking anguish,

    With anguish after it, and clamour beneath it.

  11. قد نَدَّ عن لُقْوَةٍ جرداءَ سابحةٍ

    قد رابها جَرَذٌ أو راعها رَمَشُ

    It had fled from a bare, soaring eagle;

    A rat had unsettled her, or small creatures had frightened her.

  12. فأقبلتْ تتلظَّى وهْي كادحةٌ

    وانهدَّ منها شراعٌ قدَّه الكَرِشُ

    Then she came on blazing, while she laboured,

    And a sail fell from her, slit by the potbellied one.

  13. فعاجلتْها المنايا وهْي غافلةٌ

    فخلَّفتْها رفاتًا فهْي تنتبشُ

    Then death overtook her suddenly, while she was unaware,

    And left her as crumbled remains, now being unearthed.