Claude 2

  1. هذي العيون وهذه الحَدَقُ

    فليَدنُ من بفؤاده يَثِقُ

    These eyes and this glance,

    Let whoever has a heart of trust approach.

  2. لو أنهم عَشِقوا لما عذلوا

    لكنهم عذلوا وما عشقوا

    Had they fallen in love, they would not have blamed,

    But they blamed without falling in love.

  3. عنفوا عليَّ بلومهم سفهاً

    لو جُرِّعوا كأس الهوى رفقوا

    They were unjustly harsh in blaming me,

    Had they tasted the cup of passion, they would have been gentle.

  4. ما الحبُّ إلاّ مسلك خَطِرٌ

    عَسِرُ النجاة وموطىءٌ زَلِقُ

    Love is but a perilous path,

    Escape is difficult and the footing slippery.

  5. من أجل هذا ظلّ يقنص ليثَ

    الغاب فيه الشادنُ الخرق

    That is why the lion still stalks

    The thicket where the bold hyena tears.

  6. ومسربل بالخز معتجرٍ

    منه باكمله ومنتطقُ

    Clad in rough sackcloth

    Head to toe speaking volumes.

  7. عجبي لجبهته وطرته

    وضح الصباح وما انجلى الغسَقُ

    My wonder at his brow and softness

    When dawn is bright and the darkness yet to disperse.

  8. يا ليلةً نادمتُ كوكبها

    في حيث اطلعَه لي الأفقُ

    Oh night I regretted its planet

    When the horizon revealed it to me.

  9. لو لم أعاجل كاسَه بجنى

    فيهِ البَرُودِ لكنتُ أحترقُ

    Had I not hurried to sip its chalice

    Containing the cold, I would have burned.

  10. حتى إذا صرعتهُ سورتها

    قمراً عليه الشُهب تأتلقُ

    Until overcoming him with its intoxication

    A moon on which fiery meteors flame.

  11. قبلت وجنته وقد ظهرت

    في صحنها من قلبي الحرق

    I kissed his cheek when it appeared

    On its platter, burned from my heart.

  12. وجسرتُ ثم جبنتُ عن فمه

    يُعطي الغرام ويُمنع الفَرِقُ

    And I was bold, but then recoiled from his mouth,

    Passion gives but separation is denied.

  13. ما كنت أدري قبل ضمّته

    إن الجوانح كلها تمقُ

    I did not know before I embraced him

    That all wings can burn.

  14. قد كانت الآمالُ ذاويةً

    ظمأى مكدّر شربها رَنَق

    Hopes had withered,

    My parched thirst roughening their drink.

  15. حتى أتيح لها أبو حَسَنٍ

    فنمت وعَمَّ غصونها الورقُ

    Until Abu Hassan allowed them

    To sleep, leaves covering their branches.

  16. يستصغر الدنيا فاهون ما

    تُعطى يداهُ العينُ والوَرِقُ

    The world seems paltry and cheap whatever

    Hand and paper are given.

  17. في صورة جُمعَ الكمال لها

    والإحسنان الخلَق والخُلق

    In the image of all perfection gathered for her

    And most excellent nature and manners.

  18. وتخرق في الجود يُعظمُه

    فيكاد يُحسَبُ أنه خرق

    And she surpasses in generosity, magnifying him

    Until he is assumed to be the tear itself.