أجْرىَ الوَدَاعُ بِعَيْنَيْها لآلئَ قَدْ

أجْرىَ الوَدَاعُ بِعَيْنَيْها لآلئَ قَدْ

رُوِيْنَ وهو عَقِيقٌ في ثَرَى ذَهَبِ

رُوِيْنَ وهو عَقِيقٌ في ثَرَى ذَهَبِ

Farewell set pearls coursing through her eyes, pearls already

Farewell set flowing in her eyes pearls that had

drenched—the tear itself carnelian in a bed of gold:

Been drenched—and it is agate in soil of gold.

دُرٍّ بِرِيحِ الوَرْدِ مُنْتَشِرٌ

دُرٍّ بِرِيحِ الوَرْدِ مُنْتَشِرٌ

من نَرْجِسٍ غَرِقِ الأَجْفَانِ مُنْتَحِبِ

من نَرْجِسٍ غَرِقِ الأَجْفَانِ مُنْتَحِبِ

pearls scattered by the rose’s breeze,

Pearls scattered with the fragrance of roses,

from a sobbing narcissus, its eyelids drowned in tears.

From a narcissus with flooded eyelids, sobbing.