سَوداءُ يَذرُفُ دُمعُها
مِثلَ الأَتونِ إِذا وَكَف
A black woman sheds her tears,
like a furnace when it drips;
وَكَأَنَّها مِن قُبحِها
سَلحُ العَليلِ عَلى الخَزَف
and in her ugliness she seems
a sick man’s excrement upon pottery.
Sol 5.6
سَوداءُ يَذرُفُ دُمعُها
مِثلَ الأَتونِ إِذا وَكَف
A black woman sheds her tears,
like a furnace when it drips;
وَكَأَنَّها مِن قُبحِها
سَلحُ العَليلِ عَلى الخَزَف
and in her ugliness she seems
a sick man’s excrement upon pottery.
Sol 5.6