يا بخيلاً وكلّ نظرة عين
منه كنزٌ للشاعر المُفتَنّ
O miserly one, every glance of your eye
is a treasure to the consummate poet.
أغنني عن جمال غيرك يا حُل
و بما فيك من جمال وحسن
Make me need no beauty but yours, O sweet—
—one, through the beauty and loveliness within you.
لا تدَعني أنظر إليك سراباً
شائع النور في سماوات فنّى
Do not leave me gazing upon you as a mirage,
its light diffused through the heavens of my art.
أنت يا من وهبته صفوَ عمري
كيف جازَيتني بظلمي وغَبني
You, to whom I gave the choicest essence of my life—
how have you repaid me by wronging and cheating me?
لم يرَ الناس منكَ غيرَ قوامٍ
مُبدعٍ في دلالهِ والتثنّي
People have seen in you nothing but a figure,
wondrously fashioned in its coy charm and graceful sway;
وأنا لا أراكَ غير وجودٍ
كامل الخلقِ في فؤادي وعيني
but I see you as nothing other than my very being,
perfectly formed in my heart and in my eyes.
Sol 5.6