Claude 2

  1. صبراً جميلاً فلعل وعسى

    يورق عود الوصل بعد ما عسا

    Patience, beautiful patience, perhaps and maybe

    The bond of love will leaf out after it withered

  2. والدهر قاس قلبه وربما

    يلين قلب الدهر بعدما قسا

    And time is harsh, its heart is hard

    Perhaps time's heart will soften after it hardened

  3. أساءني من بعد ما أحسن بي

    يا ليته أحسن بعدما أسا

    He wronged me after treating me well

    If only he would treat me well after wronging me

  4. أطلق دمعي بعد ما قيده

    وقال خذ منه طريقاً يبسا

    He unleashed my tears after binding them

    And said, take from it a arid road

  5. أنهلني من الدنو راحة

    أكرع منها للبعاد أكؤسا

    He let me drink from sorrow's cup

    I hastened to distance myself, having drunk my fill

  6. يا دهر كم مارستني في موطن

    شاهدت مني فيه قرماً اشوسا

    O time, how much you have rubbed me raw in my homeland

    You saw in it a lame old camel

  7. لا ينثني عن غاية يطلبها

    أو يبلغ الغاية طبعاً أشرسا

    Not turning away from the goal it seeks

    Or attaining the goal by nature most unyielding

  8. أبوه قد أسس بيتاً للهدى

    وهو بنى فشاد ما قد أسسا

    His father built a house of guidance

    While he erected what his father had founded

  9. من فتية أبوهم عليها

    وأمهم فاطمة خير النساء

    Of youths whose father was Ali

    And their mother Fatima, best of all women

  10. رووا حديث الفضل عن جدهم

    وجدهم رواه عن أهل الكسا

    They related the hadith of merit from their grandfather

    And their grandfather related it from the people of endurance

  11. ما أصبح الصبح على أمثالهم

    أطواد حلم لا ولا أمسى المسا

    No dawn has broken over likes of them

    Pillars of forbearance, no, nor has evening fallen

  12. من كل وضاح الجبين نوره

    استعار نور الشمس منه قبسا

    From each bright-browed light

    The light of sun borrowed a flint

  13. ما عسعس الليل على آملهم

    إلا وصبح جودهم تنفسا

    No night has gloomed over their hopes

    Except their generosity dawned breathing

  14. وعيلم إن أعضلت معضلة

    كان لبرء دائها نعم الأسا

    And should a complex issue be knotted

    The loosing of its knot was a fine healer

  15. يا دهر جد بالقرب منهم نفسا

    وعد كل العمر ذاك النفسا

    O fate, keep close to them a soul

    Count the whole of life as that soul

  16. أسلمتني إلى الأسى من بعدهم

    من بعدهم اسلمتني إلى الأسى

    After them you delivered me over to grief

    After them you delivered me over to grief