Poems
- إذا ما بات من ترب فراشيWhen my bed is made of dust,
- ألقيت عن يدي العصاI cast the staff from my hand
- إن ابن بشران ولست ألومهIndeed, Ibn Bishran—and I do not blame him—
- حملت هوى كهواي فهي بوصلهShe bore a love like mine, so through union with him she
- خليلي قولا للخليفة أحمدMy two friends, say to the caliph Ahmad:
- قالوا بياض الشيب نور ساطعThey said: the whiteness of gray hair is a radiant light
- قالوا نراه يسل شعر عذارهThey said, “We see him plucking the hair of his sideburns
- قبلت وجنته فألفت جيدهI kissed his cheek; he turned his neck away
- قد لبس االصوف لترك الصفاThey have donned wool to forsake purity—
- قولوا لمولانا الوزير الذيTell our lord, the vizier who
- كلفت بعلم المنجنيق ورميهI was enamored of the art of the catapult and firing it,
- لا تكن واثقاً بمن كظم الغيظDo not trust one who suppresses anger
- ما جئت أسألك المواهب مادحاًI have not come praising you to ask you for gifts;
- مولاي يا شيخ الرباط الذيMy lord, O sheikh of the lodge, who
- هل لمن يرتجي البقاء خلودIs there immortality for one who hopes to live on?
- وجارية عبرت للطوافAnd a young woman passed by to circumambulate,
- وجارية من بنات الحبوشAnd a slave-girl, one of Abyssinia’s daughters,
- وزامر بات نديما لناAnd a piper spent the night as our drinking companion,
- وقالوا قد صددت وملت عناAnd they said, “You have turned away and withdrawn from us.”
- يا للرجال شكايتي من شكوةO men! My complaint is against a waterskin.
- يقعده في النهوض ردفA rump keeps him seated when he tries to rise.
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