طَافَ بِشَمْسَيْنِ مِنْ عُقارَيْنِ

في ذَهَبِيَّيْنِ جُوْهَرِيَّينِ

He circled with two suns of fragrant plants

In two golden jewels

قَضِيبُ بَانٍ مِنْ فَوْقِهِ قَمَرٌ

يُدِيرُ كَأْسَيْنِ مِنْ مُدَامَيْنِ

A rising stick over which a moon

That turns two cups made of twisting

يَكادُ عِنْدَ القِيامِ يَقْسِمُهُ الر

رِدْفُ إِذا ما انْثَنى بِقِسْمَيْنِ

It almost divides him when standing, the pleat

When it folds into two halves

كأَنَّما وَرْدُ وَجْنَتَيْهِ عَلَى

خَدَّيهِ نارَانِ فَوْقَ ماءَيْنِ

As if the roses of his cheeks upon

His face two fires above two waters

لا النَّارُ تُطْفى بِالمَاءِ فِيهِ وَلا ال

ماءُ بِجارٍ مِنْ تَحْتِ هَذَيْنِ

Neither can the fire be extinguished with the water in it, nor the

Water with a neighbor below these two

فَانْظُرْ إِلَيْهِ كأَنَّما انْقَطَعَتْ

أَصْداغُ صُدْغَيْهِ خَوْفَ نارَيْنِ

So look at him as if the sides of his cheeks had split

Fearing two fires

في لَيْلَةٍ طَرَزَتْ غِلالَةَ خَدَّيْ

هِ لَدى فَجْرِهِ طِرازَيْنِ

In a night that embroidered the darkness of his cheeks

At its dawn with two embroideries

فَكُلَّما مَثَّلَ الصَّباحَ لَنا

تَمَثَّلَ الليْلُ فِيهِ مِثْلَيْنِ

So whenever the morning portrayed

The night in him like two

تَبْكي لِوَجْدٍ فيهِ كَواكِبُهُ

كَما بَكى ناظِرٌ بِدَمْعَيْنِ

You cry for ecstasy in it like its planets

As a watcher cried with two tears

كَأَنَّما أَسْلَفَتْ سَوَالِفُ خَدَّيْ

هِ لِضَوْءِ الصَّباحِ صُبْحَيْنِ

As if the conversations of his cheeks lent

The light of morning two mornings

عَانَقْتُ بَدْراً فيهِ وَعَانَقَنَي

فَصَارَ حَظِّي مِنْ ذَيْنِ حَظَّيْنِ

I embraced a full moon in it and it embraced me

So my share of the two became two shares

وَالبَدْرُ قَدْ وَشَّحَتْ يَداهُ مِنْ ال

وَجْدِ لأَعْناقِنا وِشَاحَيْنِ

And the full moon was stingy with its hands from

Ecstasy for our necks two scarfs

كأَنَّما كَانَ عَاشِقاً ظَفِرَتْ

يَداهُ مِنْ هَجْرِنا بِوَصْلَيْنِ

As if it were a lover whose hands had attained

From our estrangement two unions

كأَنَّنا وَالظَّلامُ يَجْمَعُنا

صُبْحانِ لاحَا مِنْ تَحْتِ لَيْلَيْنِ

As if we and the darkness gathered us

Two dawns appeared from under two nights