Claude 2

  1. خلت سماء المعاني من سنا الشهب

    فالآن أظلم أفق الشعر والأدبِ

    The sky of meanings has become devoid of its meteors

    So now the horizon of poetry and literature has darkened

  2. تقطب العيش وجها بعد رحلة من

    تجاذبوا بالمعاني مركز القطبِ

    Life has become gloomy after the departure of those

    Who used to pull the center of meaning between them

  3. تعطلت خرد الأيام من درر

    كانت تحلى بها منهم ومن ذهبِ

    The wisdom of days has become disabled without the pearls

    That it used to adorn itself with, from them and from gold

  4. لو تعلم الأرض ما ضمنت بطرت

    بهم كما يبطر الإنسان بالنسبِ

    If the earth knew who it embraced

    As man embraces his lineage

  5. ولو درى المسك أن الترب ضمهم

    لو دنشقة عرف من شذا التربِ

    And if musk knew that the soil contained them

    It would split open from the fragrance of the soil

  6. لهفى عليهم إذ التذ السماع بما

    أهدوا إليه التذاذ الذوق بالضربِ

    It yearns for them when the hearing is delighted with what

    They brought it of the delight of taste through eloquence

  7. إن أبدلوا طربى بالحزن بعدهمُ

    فطال ما أبدلوا الأحزان بالطربِ

    If after them they replaced my joy with sorrow

    Then how long they replaced joy with sorrow!

  8. لو كان صونهم يا قلب يمكنني

    لصنتهم بك صون العين بالهدبِ

    If protecting them were possible, O my heart

    I would have protected them in you like protecting the eye with the eyebrow

  9. ما أنصفتهم عيوني في البكا ولو

    أغنت مدامعها عن وابل السحبِ

    My eyes did not do justice to them in crying

    Even if its tears sufficed instead of rain showers

  10. فطالما سلكوا نهج البديع وما

    هدوا إليه هدى الأقمار للنجبِ

    How long they followed the path of rhetoric

    And guided it as the moon guides the stars

  11. قد كان من أربى تهذيب قافية

    واليوم لم أربى ميلا إلى أربِ

    There had been the most well-mannered rhyming

    And today I have not seen any inclination towards prosody

  12. زانوا بنظمهم الدنيا ولا عجب

    إذا تزينت الظلماء بالشهبِ

    With their compositions they adorned the world, and no wonder

    If darkness is adorned with meteors

  13. لا تعجبن إن قضوا نحبا وفاجأهم

    ريب المنون فما في الموت من عجبِ

    Do not be surprised if they passed away suddenly

    And the harbinger of death took them by surprise, for in death there is no wonder

  14. سقى ثراهم غواد لا انقشاع لها

    عيونها مثل أفواه من القربِ

    Their graves were watered by endless darkness

    Their eyes like the mouths of graves