Sol 6.1

  1. ذَهَبوا فَقَلبي كَيفَ لا يتجذذ

    أَرأَيت صباً هائِماً يتلذَّذ

    They departed—how could my heart not be torn apart?

    Have you seen a lovesick, distraught lover taking pleasure?

  2. ذلَّ المحب لدى الغواني عزَّة

    وَهَوى الحسان عَلى الحشا مستحوذ

    A lover's abasement before beautiful women is honor,

    and love of beauties holds sway over the heart.

  3. ذهل المحب غداة حثوا للسرى

    سوى المطىّ وَللأضالع أَفلذوا

    The lover was bewildered the morning they urged on for night travel

    the riding camels [preceding word uncertain], and tore his ribs apart.

  4. أَذابَ الفؤآد فَكادَ تنفد أَدمعي

    من مُقلتي أَو كاد روحي تنفذ

    It melted my heart, so my tears nearly ran dry

    from my eye—or my soul nearly escaped.

  5. ذمّ الغَرام عصابة لَم يَشرَبوا

    كأَس الجَمال وَما به أَتنبذ

    A band condemned love who had never drunk

    the cup of beauty and the wine I brew from it.

  6. ذق يا عَذول سلاف مأخذ حبهم

    فلكل شيء في البَريَّة مأَخذ

    Taste, O reproacher, the pure wine at the source of their love,

    for everything in creation has a source.

  7. ذبحوا الطفل النوم مذ سلبوا الحشا

    وَلحدّ سيف الهجر عمداً شحذوا

    They slaughtered the child, Sleep, since they stole my heart,

    and deliberately whetted the edge of separation's sword.

  8. ذا دوا الكئب وأعرضوا عَن وصله

    فهم بالبان التقاطع قد غذوا

    They drove the sorrowful man away and turned from union with him,

    for they have been fed on the milk of estrangement.

  9. ذعر المتيم حينما نبذوا الوَفا

    لَيتَ الحسان عَلى سوآء ينبذوا

    The enthralled lover was terrified when they cast off fidelity;

    if only the beauties cast it off on equal terms!

  10. ذكر وَالوصال وعرَّضوا بحشاشَتي

    فأَجبتهم روحي وَمالكت خذوا

    [They] mentioned union and hinted at my life's remnant;

    so I answered them: "Take my soul and all I own."

  11. ذرفت دُموعي من وَساوِس صدَّهم

    فَغَدا الفؤآد بنورهم يتعوَّذ

    My tears flowed from anxious thoughts of their rejection,

    and my heart began seeking refuge in their light.

  12. ذَنباً جنى طَرفي فَقادوا مهجَتي

    قسراً وَمالي من نواهم منقذ

    My eye committed a sin, and they led off my soul

    by force; I have no rescuer from their parting.

  13. ذاعَ الحَديث بصبوتي فيهم كَما

    ذاعَت صفات الشهم ذاكَ الجهبذ

    Word of my passion for them spread, just as

    the virtues of that noble, discerning master spread:

  14. ذخر الملا المقدام أَحمد من غَدا

    ركن المُلوك ببابه مستأخذ

    the people's treasure, valiant Ahmad, before whom

    the mainstay of kings has grown submissive at his gate.

  15. ذرب المقال اذا تَرآءى ناشِراً

    ثوب الوقار فَبالكَمال مقذذ

    Eloquent in speech, when he appears unfolding

    the robe of dignity, he is adorned with perfection.

  16. ذمم الطغاة بعصره مقطوعة

    لكن عنان المجد دَوماً يحبذ

    The tyrants' pledges are severed in his age,

    yet he always prizes the reins of glory.

  17. دبلت ثمامات الملوك بحكمه

    وَزَهى به آس السعود وَجنبذ

    The kings' tufts of thumam grass withered under his rule,

    and through him the myrtle of good fortune flourished and budded.

  18. ذبّ الرَدى اذ دبّ فينا لادِغاً

    أَو ما تَراه هارِباً يتشعبذ

    He repelled death when it crept among us, biting;

    or do you not see it fleeing, playing tricks?

  19. ذاكَ الَّذي تَسعى الركاب لداره

    والى نداه كل راج يهنذ

    That is the man to whose house the riding camels hasten,

    and every hopeful seeker hurries toward his bounty.

  20. ذلق اللسان اذا بدا في محفل

    فَبِقَوله كل الأَفاضِل ياخذوا

    Fluent of tongue when he appears in a gathering,

    so all the eminent men heed his words.

  21. ذوب النضار مسيله من كفه

    لكن لِقَلب القرم قَسراً يحنذ

    Molten gold streams from his palm,

    yet it forcibly scorches a great chief's heart.

  22. ذهباً أَعدّ لمن أَتاه قاصِداً

    بِقَصيدة وَنواله لا يفلذ

    He prepared gold for whoever came seeking him

    with a poem; his bounty is never cut off.

  23. ذئب الفَلا يَرعى الشياه لعدله

    اذ كانَ قدماً حول ذاكَ يفذفذ

    The desert wolf tends the sheep because of his justice,

    though formerly it darted restlessly about that flock.

  24. ذرعاً يَضيق عدوّه يوم الوَغا

    لِقيام وزن الضرب وهو منجذ

    His enemy is overwhelmed on the day of battle

    by the sustained weight of the blows, seasoned though he is.

  25. ذاتَ الفخار به قَديماً خلقة

    وَبِغَيره عرض حَديث شهمذ

    The essence of glory has long been innate in him,

    while in another it is a recent, acquired quality [epithet uncertain].

  26. ذاوى قَضيب البغى في اعصاره

    وَبأمنه جيش الضلال مفذّذ

    The bough of oppression has withered in his days,

    and through his peace the army of error is scattered.

  27. ذلت بحضرته المُلوك مهابة

    وَبظل رتبته المَنيعة لؤذوا

    Kings are humbled in his presence out of awe,

    and have sought refuge in the shade of his impregnable rank.

  28. ذهني يَجود بكل معنى فائِق

    فكأَنَّ في سمط النظام زمرّد

    My mind generously yields every exquisite meaning,

    as though there were emeralds in the strand of verse.

  29. ذيل العلا لا زال يسحب دائِماً

    ما رجع الحادي فحنت حرفذ

    May he ever trail the train of greatness,

    as long as the camel-driver chants and a she-camel moans with longing.