Poems
- أرقرق دمعي كي أبرد غلةI let my tears trickle to cool a burning thirst
- اشرب هنيئا لاعداك الطربDrink with pleasure—may delight never pass you by—
- أصبحت في الدهر كالمعقول مختفياI have become in this world like an abstract concept, hidden
- أقول ودمعي يستهل ويسفحI say, while my tears gush forth and stream down,
- ألا إن دهرا هادما كل مانبنىBehold, time, which demolishes all that has been built,
- تفرغ لي دهري فصيرني شغلاMy time has become devoted to me, so it has made me busy
- حث المدامة والنسيم عليلPass the wine swiftly, while the breeze is languid.
- رب يوم قد ظل فيه نديميMany a day my boon companion spent
- ربع تربصت النجوم لأهلهA dwelling—the stars lay in wait for its people,
- غصن يهتز في دعصA branch sways in the palm tree,
- فبقيت في العرصات وحدي بعدهمSo I remained alone in the courtyards after they had gone,
- فكأن الغمام صب عميدSo the cloud seems a lover stricken with longing,
- فلا تشمت الحساد شدة حالتيSo let the severity of my plight not make the envious gloat.
- فما بال صبحي قد تقارب خطوهSo what ails my dawn, whose steps have grown short,
- في منزل كالليل أسود فاحمIn a dwelling, black as night, coal-black,
- قمري الوجه أبدى بضحىThe moon-faced one—in the morning radiance
- كأن الظبا مما لزمن أكفهمAs though the sword blades, from clinging to their palms,
- كأن زماني فوق ساقى قابضAs though my time had clamped its grip upon my leg,
- كأنما إنسان أجفانهاAs though the pupil of her eyelids
- له عسكر كالبحر بالبيض مزبدHe has an army like the sea, foaming with whiteness
- له وجه يحسن وجه عذريHe has a face that beautifies my excuse
- وأحاول السلوان عن حبي لهI try to distract him from my love
- وتجافت جفون عيني سهداAnd the lids of my eye drew apart in sleeplessness,
- ودعت من أهوى أصيلا ليتنيI bade farewell at eventide to the one I love—if only I
- وشت يد الدهر رأسي بالمشيب أسىThe hand of Time embroidered my head with gray—alas—
- وصماء ملء الكف من يابس الصفاAnd a solid stone, filling the palm, of hard, smooth rock,
- وعشي كأنه صبح عيدAnd an evening like a feast-day morning,
- وكأن المياه فيها ثعابينAnd as though the waters within it were serpents
- وكيف توارى البحر في قعر ملحدAnd how did the sea vanish into the depths of a grave,
- يا ظاعنا قلبي عليه هودجO departing one, upon whom my heart is a howdah,
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