صَرَمتُ مِن أُنسِيَ حَبلَ الأَمَلْ

فسَله ما أصابَهُ أو لا تَسَلْ

I have lost the rope of hope from my intimate friend

Ask him what befell him or ask not at all

حالٌ مِن أُنسِي حَبل الأَمَل

سَرَى بها الركبُ وَطَارَ المَثَلْ

A state from my intimate the rope of hope

The caravan flowed with it and the example flew

مَدَامِعٌ تَنحَلُّ أَسمَاطُهَا

وَلَوعَةٌ عُقدَتُهَا لا تُحَل

Tears that melt their intertwined strands

And anguish whose knot cannot be undone

وَمُهجَةٌ مُستَطرَفٌ عَيشُهَا

يَا لَيتَ شِعرِي أَينَ مِنهَا الأجَل

And a grievance whose life is depleted

Oh would that I know where is death from it

يَا لَيتَ شِعرِي وَالمُنَى جَمَّةٌ

وَيُغبَطُ المَرءُ بِمَا لَم يَنَل

Oh would that I knew and death is heaped up

And man is envied for what he did not attain

هَل يَرجِعُ الدَّهرُ كَعَهدِي بِهِ

وَقَلَّمَا تَستَعطِفُ الدَّهرَ هَل

Will time return as my era with it

And rarely does time show clemency

جِيرَتنَا مَا لِي أَرى قُربَكُم

مَالَ بِهِ البَينُ فَهَلا اعتَدَل

My neighbors why do I see your nearness

Turned by separation, so why not be just

لَو كَانَ لِي أمرِي وَمَن لِي بِهِ

لمتُّ مِن بَعدِكُمُ لا أَقَل

If my command and who do I have it

I would not stay after you at all

لَكِن يُقِرُّ العَينَ أَنَّ الجَوَى

قَد جَلَّ حَتَّى دَقَّ فِيهِ الأَجَل

But it comforts the eye that intimacy

Has passed until death knocked in it

وَالقَلبُ إِلا مِن وَجِيبٍ عَرى

وَالعَينُ إِلا مِن دُمُوعٍ طَلَل

Except a heart from a beloved laid bare

And an eye but from flowing tears

وَلامَنِي قَومٌ فَرُدُّوا بِما

جَاءُوا وَمَلُّوا وَأَنا لا أَمَل

And people blamed me, so they returned with what

They came and filled up, and I have no hope

فَلَو رَأى ضَبَّةُ عِصيَانَهُم

لَم يَنسُبِ السَّيفَ لِسَبقِ العَذَل

If the pack of their disobedience saw

It would not attribute the sword to preceding harm