Sol 6.1

  1. طَريد الهَوى يهديه نجم من القرط

    اذا ضَلَّ في ليل من الفاحِم السبط

    Love's fugitive is guided by a star from the earring,

    When he strays in a night of straight, coal-black hair.

  2. طروس الهوى ان كانَ أَشكل رسمها

    فَلي زفرة كالشكل وَالدَمع كالنقط

    If the script on love's pages has become obscure,

    I have a sigh like vowel marks, and tears like dots.

  3. طَلائِع جَيش الخطّ جاءَت مغيرة

    لَها راية خضرآء من ذلك الوخط

    The vanguard of the army of cheek-down came raiding,

    With a green banner made of that speckling.

  4. طردنا بها عنا خيول عواذِل

    كأَنهم العشوآء في ذلك الخبط

    With it we drove the reproachers' horses away from us,

    As though, in that blundering, they were a dim-sighted she-camel.

  5. طويَت هواهم في زَوايا طويَتي

    كَما طَوى القرطاس يوماً عَلى خطِّ

    I folded my love for them into the recesses of my inmost self,

    As a sheet of paper was once folded over writing.

  6. طلولهم بين الأَضالِع لا اللوى

    وَهم بالحشا لا بالكَثيب وَبالسقط

    Their deserted traces lie between my ribs, not at al-Liwa,

    And they are in my heart, not by the dune or the sand's edge.

  7. طَريف غَرام للملاح وَتالِد

    باطراف قَلبي محكم العقد والربط

    Love for the fair, both newfound and longstanding,

    Is firmly knotted and bound at the edges of my heart.

  8. طَريق الهَوى صعب عَلى كل من خطا

    لنيل العذارى فهو في رأَيه مخطى

    The road of love is hard for everyone who steps forth

    To attain the maidens; his judgment is mistaken.

  9. طمعت بأخذ القَلب منهم لأَنهم

    أَقالوا وَكانَ البيع مني عَلى شرط

    I hoped to reclaim my heart from them, for they

    Rescinded the bargain; my sale had been made on a condition.

  10. طلابي من الدنيا حَبيب مواصل

    اذا ما بدا يحكي الغَزال الَّذي يعطى

    What I seek from this world is a beloved who grants union,

    When he appears, he resembles a gazelle reaching upward.

  11. طغى خطه ذاكَ العَزيز بمصره

    فصال به موسى عَلى معشر القبط

    His cheek-down grew tyrannical—that mighty one in his Egypt—

    So with it Moses charged against the company of Copts.

  12. طلآء لنا أَبدى أَم الريق يجتَلى

    وَنجم بدا أَم ذاكَ شيء من السمط

    Is it wine he has revealed to us, or saliva being beheld?

    And has a star appeared, or is that part of the necklace?

  13. طَليقاً غدا دَمعي وَقَلبي مقيد

    وَهمى عَلى جسمي يبالغ بالغط

    My tears became unfettered, while my heart is bound,

    And poured over my body, submerging it beyond measure.

  14. طَريحاً عليلا لَيسَ يرثى لحالَتي

    حَبيب مَليح العطف والقد كالخوط

    Prostrate and ailing, I receive no pity for my plight

    From a beloved of lovely flank, whose stature is like a supple shoot.

  15. طَبيب خَبير بالضلوع وَسقمها

    وَما في فؤآدي للصبابة من خلط

    A physician well versed in the ribs and their sickness,

    And in whatever blend of yearning lies within my heart.

  16. طعيناً دَعاني اذ رَمى القَلب لحظه

    بسهم فَلَم يعد الفؤآد وَلَم يخط

    He called me pierced when his glance shot at my heart

    With an arrow that neither overshot the heart nor missed.

  17. طفقت الى المقدام أَشكو ظلامتي

    فذاكَ بأَخذ الثار في الكون لَم يبط

    I began taking my grievance to the dauntless one,

    For he has not been slow to exact vengeance in this world.

  18. طَويل نجاد السيف في حومة الوغى

    اذا قهقر المقدام في ذلك الشوط

    His sword-baldric is long in the thick of battle,

    When the daring warrior retreats in that contest.

  19. طَرايف خير من نداه معدّة

    ميسرة للوفد محلولة الخيط

    Rare gifts of goodness from his bounty stand ready,

    Readily available to the visiting delegation, their string untied.

  20. طَغى جوده وَالناس من حول نيله

    كأَنهم الورّاد من شاطىء الشطّ

    His generosity has overflowed, and the people around his Nile

    Are like those drawing water from the river's bank.

  21. طَوائِف انعام نيل لطالِب

    وَيَسطو عَلى أَهل المَفاسِد بالسوط

    Many kinds of favors are attained by a seeker,

    And he assails the corrupt with a whip.

  22. طَلاقَته عند النوال كأَنَّها

    صباح وَما الهيف الخرائد كالشمط

    His cheerfulness when giving is like

    Morning; slender maidens are not like gray-haired women.

  23. طَرى ذكره في الخافقين فأَذعنت

    عَلى البعد أَقيال الأَعاجم وَالنبط

    His name was extolled in East and West, and so submitted

    Despite the distance, the princes of the non-Arabs and the Nabataeans.

  24. طراز المَعالي لاح من فوق هامه

    اذا اِشتملت أَهل الفَضائِل في مرط

    The embroidery of lofty honors shone above his head,

    When they enfolded the people of virtue in a cloak.

  25. طرياً أَرى مني اللسان بمدحه

    فَيا طالَما روّاه في شدّة القحط

    I find my tongue moist with praise of him,

    For oh, how often he has watered it in the harshest drought!

  26. طمت منه أَبحار النوال وَقبل ذا

    رقى رتبة العليآء بالقبض وَالبسط

    From him the seas of giving overflowed; and before this,

    He rose to the rank of eminence through withholding and bestowing.

  27. طبعنا عَلى مدح الوَزير نفوسنا

    فَفاحَ أَريح للمدائح كالقسط

    We molded our souls to praise the minister,

    So the fragrance of praise wafted like costus incense.

  28. طوالعه لا زالَ تنقضّ دائِما

    عَلى جيش لؤم من أعاديه كالرقط

    May his rising stars never cease swooping down

    Upon the vile army of his foes, like speckled snakes.

  29. طبول الهنا لا زالَ تضرب حوله

    بجاه شفيع الخلق والآل وَالسبط

    May the drums of joy never cease to be beaten around him,

    By the standing of creation's intercessor, his family, and his grandson.