Claude 2

  1. ألسيع صل ماله من راقى

    أَم مُبتَلى بتحمل الأَشواق

    Is he worn out, with no comforter?

    Or afflicted with enduring passions?

  2. أَم لحظة سَبَقَت عليه فَأَمرَضَت

    أَحشاءَه بِمَريضة الأَحداق

    Or did a moment outpace him and so sicken

    His innermost being with lovesickness of the eyelids?

  3. شَغَلَته ذاتَ الخال وَهيَ خَلية

    فَمَتى تلاقى بعض ما هُوَ لاقى

    The cheek’s mole preoccupied him while it is but

    A beauty spot - so when might he meet some of what he has met?

  4. لَولا بدور في الخد وَركوا نس

    ماهامَ ذو شجر بذات نطاق

    Were it not for the full moons in his cheek and the soft down,

    No thicket-dweller would yearn for such a place.

  5. تَجري الخطوب فَما أَمر عَلى الفَتى

    من يوم بين بعد يوم تَلاقى

    Cares pass by; but what befalls the youth

    From one day to the next when they meet?

  6. يا ساقي العشاق راح صبابة

    أَدر الصَبابة واسقنى يا ساقى

    O cupbearer of lovers, go gently with the pouring;

    Pour gently and give me to drink, o cupbearer:

  7. المَطى اذا مررت بذى اللقا

    نَبكي الرسوم وَلَو بقدر فواق

    When I pass by the abode of she with whom I once mingled,

    We weep, even if just a little.

  8. ان كنت لَم تذق الغَرام فإِنَّني

    ثمل بكأس لِلغَرام دهاق

    If you have not tasted love, well I

    Am drunk with a deep draft of love.

  9. ما كنت أَعرف ما الصبابة وَالبكا

    لَولا فراق خَريدة معتاق

    I knew naught of wine and weeping

    Save through parting from my beloved fellow wilderness-rover.