أيقظ جفونك من فتور نعاسها

أيقظ جفونك من فتور نعاسها

فالشمس قد نزعت لنا من كاسها

فالشمس قد نزعت لنا من كاسها

Rouse your eyelids from the languor of their drowsiness.

Awaken your eyelids from their languid sleepiness

For the sun has drawn for us from her cup,

For the sun has poured for us from her chalice

وتغنت الورقا على عيدانها

وتغنت الورقا على عيدانها

ومرت لك النفحات من انفاسها

ومرت لك النفحات من انفاسها

And the gray dove has sung upon her boughs,

And the leaves have sung upon their branches

And fragrant wafts have passed your way from her breaths.

And the breezes have passed by with their breaths

واليك احداق الحدائق ان رنت

واليك احداق الحدائق ان رنت

ما بين نرجسها الانيق وآسها

ما بين نرجسها الانيق وآسها

Toward you turn the gardens' eyes, should they gaze,

And the gardens have winked at you, if they rang out

Amid their graceful narcissus and their myrtle.

Between the elegant narcissus and the myrtle

قم فاجلها بكرا وغالط عذلي

قم فاجلها بكرا وغالط عذلي

ان كنت من اهل الكؤس وناسها

ان كنت من اهل الكؤس وناسها

Rise, then unveil her as a virgin, and outwit my reproachers,

Arise early tomorrow and reproach the blamers

If you are among the cups' people and their folk.

If you are of the people of the cup and its companions

واحفظ حسابك ان تعدد سربها

واحفظ حسابك ان تعدد سربها

واضرب لها الاخماس في اسداسها

واضرب لها الاخماس في اسداسها

Keep your reckoning if her flock multiplies,

And keep your account if their flock multiplies

And for her multiply the fifths by her sixths.

And subtract the fifths in their sixths for them

وعلى همومك ألق من اكسيرها

وعلى همومك ألق من اكسيرها

واصرف على الاكياس من اكياسها

واصرف على الاكياس من اكياسها

Cast some of her elixir upon your cares,

And cast the elixir of it upon your worries

And spend on the discerning from her purses.

And spend upon the bags from her bags

عذراء لامسها المزاج فأنتجت

عذراء لامسها المزاج فأنتجت

كأسا تطوف به على جلاسها

كأسا تطوف به على جلاسها

A virgin—the admixture touched her, and she bore

A maiden whom moodiness has touched and so produced

A cup you carry round among her companions.

A cup circulating among those seated around her

مسكية النفحات الا انها

مسكية النفحات الا انها

عن عرفها ينبيك غيب غراسها

عن عرفها ينبيك غيب غراسها

Musky in her wafts, save that

Musky in scent, but from her consciousness

The secret of her planting tells you of her scent,

The absent plants caution you

من كل فاتنة القوام بحسنها

من كل فاتنة القوام بحسنها

تزدان لا بحليها ولباسها

تزدان لا بحليها ولباسها

From every woman of enchanting figure, who by her beauty

Of every belle with a beautiful figure

Is adorned, not by her jewels or her clothes.

Adorned not with her jewels and clothes

رامت تقاس بها الغصون جهالة

رامت تقاس بها الغصون جهالة

فاتى القوام على خلاف قياسها

فاتى القوام على خلاف قياسها

The boughs sought, in ignorance, to be compared with her,

She tried to compare herself with the branches foolishly

But her figure proved contrary to their comparison.

But stature goes beyond her estimate

عذراء لي خلع العذار جلابها

عذراء لي خلع العذار جلابها

فجناس نظمي من بديع جناسها

فجناس نظمي من بديع جناسها

A virgin—casting off the bridle is what brings her to me;

A maiden whose gown of chastity I removed

So my verse's wordplay springs from her wondrous wordplay.

So my puns are of the finest of her puns

فاذا بدت ما وجه اقمار الدجا

فاذا بدت ما وجه اقمار الدجا

واذا رنت ما لحظ رسم كناسها

واذا رنت ما لحظ رسم كناسها

So when she appears, what are the faces of night's moons?

When the moons of dark night appeared

And when she gazes, what is the glance of the figure in her covert?

And when the bright eyes of the wild cows shone

تاللّه ما الاقمار من اشكالها

تاللّه ما الاقمار من اشكالها

كلا ولا الغزلان من اجناسها

كلا ولا الغزلان من اجناسها

By God, the moons are not her peers;

By God, the moons are not of her forms

No indeed, nor are the gazelles of her kind.

Nor are the gazelles of her species

اياك ان مالت وماس قوامها

اياك ان مالت وماس قوامها

اني اخاف عليك من مياسها

اني اخاف عليك من مياسها

Beware, should she lean and her figure sway:

Beware if she leans towards you and touches you

Indeed, I fear for you because of her swaying.

For I fear her touch may sway you