Claude 2

  1. أَلا يا لَيلُ هَل لَكَ مِن صَباحِ

    وَهَل لأَسير نجمِكَ مِن سَراح

    O night, will you ever have a dawn

    And will your captive star ever be set free?

  2. أَلا يا لَيلُ طُلتَ عَليّ حَتّى

    كَأَنّك قَد خُلِقتَ بِلا صَباحِ

    O night, you lingered over me long enough

    As if you were created without a dawn

  3. فَهَلأ باتَت فُطَيمَةُ فيكَ تَشكو

    كَما أَشكو اِغتِرابي وَانتِزاحي

    Did Futooma spend the night in you, complaining

    As I complain of my estrangement and displacement?

  4. أَرَدِّدُ زَفرَةَ المُضنى كَأَنّي

    جَريحٌ أَنّ من أَلَمِ الجِراحِ

    I utter the groan of distress as if I

    Am a wounded man crying from pain

  5. يُقَلِّبُني الأَسى جَنباً لِجَنبٍ

    كَأنّي فَوقَ أَطرافِ الرِماحِ

    Sadness tosses me from side to side

    As if I am above the tips of spears

  6. دَعاني الحُبّ نَحوَكِ أَمَّ عَمروٍ

    فَطِرتُ إِلَيكِ خَفّاقَ الجَناحِ

    Passion calls me to you or to Amro

    So I flapped my wings in flight toward you

  7. وَلَو أَسطِيعُ مِن طَرَبٍ وَشَوقٍ

    رَكِبتُ إِلَيكِ أَجنِحَةَ الرِياحِ

    And if I could, from such passion and longing

    I would ride the wings of the wind to reach you

  8. أَحِبّتَنا رُوَيدَكُمُ عَلَينا

    فَقَد جَمَحَ الهَوى كُلّ الجِماحِ

    Patience, friends, do not blame us

    For passion has singed all the feathers

  9. هُوَ القَدَرُ المُتاحُ جَرى عَلَينا

    وَمَن يَسطيعُ لِلقَدرِ المُتاحِ

    It is destined and fated for us

    And who can escape destined fate?

  10. غَريبٌ حَلَّ دارَكُم فَأَضحَت

    لَهُ يَهماءَ مُوحِشَةَ النَواحي

    A stranger lodged in your abode so it

    Became dreary, desolate areas for him

  11. تَناكَرَتِ الوُجُوهُ بِها عَلَيهِ

    وَكانَت ذاتَ عَرفٍ وَاِنشِراحِ

    Faces there scorned him

    Though once cheerful and mirthful

  12. وَلَو شِئتُم لَما حَسُن اِنفِرادي

    بِأَشواقي وَلا وَجَبَ اطِّراحي

    Had you wished I would not have isolated myself

    With my passions, making me shun company

  13. وَقُلتُم إِنَّكُم تَجِدونَ وَجدِي

    وَهَيهاتَ المِراضُ مِن الصِحاحِ

    And you claimed you share my love

    Yet alas, disease never makes for health

  14. أَعاتِبُكُم لِأَنَّكُمُ بِخِلتُم

    وَأَنتُم قادِرُونَ عَلى السَماحِ

    I blame you because you were stingy

    When you are able to be most generous