Sol 6.1

  1. كأن رقيباً منك يرعى خواطري

    وآخر يرعى ناظري ولساني

    As though a watcher of yours keeps watch over my thoughts,

    And another watches my gaze and my tongue.

  2. فما عاينت عيناي بعدك منظراً

    يسوءك إلا قلت قد رمقاني

    So my eyes have seen no sight in your absence

    That displeases you without my saying, "The two have watched me."

  3. ولا بدرت من في بعدك مزحةٌ

    لغيرك إلا قلت قد سمعاني

    Nor has a jest escaped my mouth in your absence

    To anyone but you without my saying, "The two have heard me."

  4. ولا خطرت من ذكر غيرك خطرةٌ

    على القلب إلا عرجا بعنان

    Nor has a thought of anyone but you crossed

    My heart without the two reining me in.

  5. إذا ما تسلى الغابرون عن الهوى

    بشرب مدامٍ أو سماع قيان

    When the rest distract themselves from love

    By drinking wine or listening to singing slave-girls,

  6. وجدت الذي سلي سواي يشوقني

    إلى قربكم حتى أمل مكاني

    I find that what consoled others makes me yearn

    To be near you, until I weary of where I am.

  7. وفتيان صدقٍ قد سئمت لقاءهم

    وعففت طرفي عنهم ولساني

    And true-hearted young men—I have tired of meeting them,

    And have withheld my gaze and my tongue from them.

  8. وما الزهد أسلى عنهم غير أنني

    أراك على الكل الجهات تراني

    It is not renunciation that has turned me from them, but that I

    See you in every direction, watching me.