Sol 6.1

  1. مطلب دموعي إن نفد

    وعز تبرو واللجين

    If the mine of my tears is exhausted,

    and its gold and silver grow scarce,

  2. فلا تلمني لي سنين

    أبكي عليك بكل عين

    do not reproach me: for years

    I have wept for you with every eye.

  3. هذا الذي قتلي نحا

    ومعرفة حالي ذكر

    This is the one who aimed to kill me

    and spoke of knowing my condition.

  4. في مبتدا عمري ضنى

    جسمي وما عنده خير

    At the beginning of my life, he wasted

    my body, and there is no goodness in him.

  5. وفعل وصل يانجزم

    يا مرو ونا نصب الهجر

    And the verb of union is cut short;

    he commands it, while I bear separation's anguish.

  6. وللجوى افردن حين

    ثنا بالقد الرديني

    And he singled me out for burning grief when

    he bent his Rudaynian-spear-like stature.

  7. وقلت بالكسر اعربوا

    وما التقى فيه ساكنين

    And I said, 'Inflect it with a kasra,'

    though no two vowelless consonants met in it.

  8. لما سما لو عارضين

    حول شامتين الوجنتين

    When his two sideburns grew

    around the two beauty spots on his cheeks,

  9. راعيتهم من مقلتي

    بالعارضين الممطرين

    I tended them from my two eyes,

    with the two rain-bearing clouds.

  10. سمع بحالي شامتين

    جوانهم لي ناصحين

    Two gloaters heard of my condition;

    they came to me as advisers.

  11. قالوا لي اش حالك ناديت

    واش حال اسير المقلتين

    They said to me, 'How are you?' I cried,

    'And how fares a captive of those two eyes,

  12. بين عارضين وعارضين

    وشامتين وشامتين

    between two sideburns and two rain clouds,

    and two beauty spots and two gloaters?'

  13. لما تبدى منيتي

    وقرطو يخفق في دلال

    When my heart's desire appeared,

    and his earring fluttered coquettishly,

  14. خفق فؤادي حين رآه

    وزاد بخفانو اشتغال

    my heart fluttered when it saw it,

    and my distraction grew with its fluttering.

  15. وحين حكم لو بالجفا

    والصد ناديت يا غزال

    And when he sentenced it to estrangement

    and rejection, I cried, 'O gazelle,

  16. قلبي وقرطك قد بدو

    طوعك وملكك في اليدين

    my heart and your earring stand revealed:

    at your command and in your possession, in your two hands.

  17. احكم يا سلطان الملاح

    بما تشا في الخافقين

    Rule, O sultan of the beautiful,

    as you wish over the two fluttering ones.'

  18. دالي بدابل مقلتو

    ودابل القد استطال

    This one, against me with the spear of his eye

    and the spear of his stature, grew overbearing.

  19. لما سما الصارم شهر

    من لحظو اسمر للقتال

    When the keen sword rose, he brandished

    from his glance a dusky spear for battle.

  20. وحين لقاني بين يديه

    اسير تلطف بي وقال

    And when he found me before him,

    a captive, he treated me gently and said,

  21. ان مت في عشقي يكون

    عجب ورب المشرقين

    'If you die in love for me, it will be

    a marvel, by the Lord of the two Easts!'

  22. قلت العجب ان كان تعيش

    بين دابلين وصارمين

    I said, 'The marvel would be if you lived

    between two spears and two swords.'

  23. صدقا رايت من نعشقو

    كوكب بحسنو والجمال

    Truly, I saw the one we love,

    a star in his beauty and loveliness.

  24. قال يا اديب صف واضجي

    وقامتي يا فصح مقال

    He said, 'Poet, describe my face

    and my stature, O eloquent speaker.'

  25. ناديت قمر كامل ظهر

    فوق كم اخذ روح ومال

    I cried, 'A full moon has appeared

    on high—how many lives and fortunes it has taken!'

  26. قال ناظري صف لي نديت

    ما لي جلد للناظرين

    He said, 'Describe my two eyes for me.' I cried,

    'I have no endurance for those two eyes.'

  27. قال حاجبي قلت ومن

    يطيق وصف الحاجبين

    He said, 'My two eyebrows?' I said, 'And who

    can describe those two eyebrows?'