قُمْ فَاجْلُ هَمِّي يا غُلامُ

بِالرَّاحِ إِذْ ضَحِكَ الظَّلامُ

Rise, my lad, and take away my cares

As the darkness smiles and dusk appears,

وَجَلا الثُّرَيَّا في مُلا

ءةِ نُورِهِ البَدْرُ التَّمامُ

And the Pleiades shine fully dressed

In the perfect moon's luminous vest.

فَكَأَنَّها كَأسٌ يُدي

رُ بِها الدُّجى وَالبَدْرُ جَامُ

As if it were a cup the gloom passed round,

The moon and stars the wine that crowned.

وَكأنَّ زُرْقَ نُجُومِها

حَدَقٌ مُفَتَّحَةٌ نِيَامُ

As if the blue of all those sparkling eyes

Were slumbering lids that wake and rise.

وَأَظُنُّها مِنْ صِحَّةٍ

مَرِضَتْ وَلَيْسَ بِها سَقَامُ

And though they seem a noble company,

Sick with yearning for what none can see,

فَكأَنَّها وَكأَنَّهُ

إِذْ حَانَ بَيْنَهُما انْصِرامُ

The moon and Pleiades I thought I knew

Until the distance made them two,

وَهَوَتْ لِتغْرِبَ فَانْثَنى

عَنْها بِمَغْرِبِها ابْتِسامُ

And she drooped westward, while, still bright,

His smile pursued her into night.

خَوْدٌ هَوى مِنْ أُذْنِها

قُرْطٌ فَقَبَّلَهُ غُلامُ

An earring slipped from her ear and fell -

A slave picked it up, kissed it, fare thee well!

وَالفَجْرُ في غَسَقِ الدُّجى

كالمَاءِ خَالَطَهُ المُدامُ

And dawn amid the gloom like wine mixed water

Showed night still sipped, though fled dawn's daughter.