بأي لفظ يفيك شعري

شرفت قدري وزنت داري

With what words can my poetry do you justice?

You raised my standing and adorned my home.

أما كفى برُك المواسي

فزدتني روعة المزار

Was your consoling kindness not enough,

That you further graced me with the splendor of your visit?

أقسمت بالشمس في ضحاها

أقسمت بالبدر بالدراري

I swore by the sun in its morning radiance;

I swore by the full moon, by the shining stars;

بفضلك الماحق الدياجي

كأنه واضح النهار

By your bounty, which banishes the dark nights,

As though it were clear daylight.

فيك من البحر كل معنى

فمن سمو إلى وقار

In you is every quality of the sea,

From loftiness to dignity.

وأنت صدر العباب رحباً

وبسمة الشط والمنار

And you are the broad breast of the surging sea,

And the smile of the shore and the beacon.

كأن هذا الجميل يترى

من طيب غادٍ ولطف ساري

As though this kindness keeps coming in succession,

From goodness coming by morning and gentleness traveling by night:

موج من البر ذو اتصال

بلا هدوء ولا قرار

A wave of kindness, unbroken,

With neither calm nor rest.

غمرتني بالجميل حتى

لجت قوافيَّ في العثار

You flooded me with kindness until

My rhymes stumbled again and again.

أنقذني البحر غير أني

غريق فضل بلا قرار

The sea rescued me, yet I

Am drowned in bottomless bounty.

كنت ندى في رياض عيشي

وكنت غيثاً على القفار

You were dew in the gardens of my life,

And you were rain upon the barren wastes.

لقيت ضنكا من الليالي

فمن غمار إلى غمار

I met with hardship from the nights,

So from one depth to another.

قد طال عتبي على الليالي

وطال للراحم انتظاري

Long have I reproached the nights,

And long have I waited for the compassionate one.

صفحت عن كل ما أساءت

حق لها الليلة اعتذاري

I have forgiven them for every wrong they did;

Tonight they deserve my apology.