أرأيت كيف نفى الحبيب همومي

بأميرة المشروب والمشمومِ

Have you seen how my beloved dispelled my worries

With the princess of drinks and fragrances?

أرأيت بدراً مثله بغلالةٍ

أو شمت شمساً مثلها بنجوم

Have you seen a full moon like him in the darkness

Or smelled a sun like it among stars?

صهباء يوصف للقتيل حميمها

ونيسيمها للعاشق المحموم

A blonde described for the slain as intimate

And her breeze for the mad lover

لم تدر حمرة خده من وردها

أم وردها من خده الملثوم

The redness of his cheek does not know from its rose

Or is its rose from his veiled cheek?

كانت بها مثل الحمامة ليلتي

يا عمرو لولا عصبةٌ كالبوم

She was with me like a dove in my nights

Oh Amr, were it not for a group like owls

لما رأوا كلفي بها وصبابتي

وتغزلي بحبابها المنظوم

When they saw my infatuation with her and my madness

And my swooning for her charms and composition

وفمي يقبل كاسها ويعبُّها

ويدي تمسِّحُ دنَّها بهدومي

And my mouth kissing her cup and sipping it

And my hand wiping its brim with my clothes

قالوا حُرمتَ من الرحيق بشربها

وهي الرحيق وشهوة المحروم

They said you are deprived of the wine by drinking it

Yet it is the wine and desire of the deprived

فأجبتهم خلوا الرحيقَ لمسلم

واَعطوا النصارى خمرة الفيّوم

So I replied, leave the wine for the Muslim

And give the Christians the wine of Fayoum

أنا والذي خلق الرحيق وغيره

لا أبدل المعلوم بالموهوم

I and the One who created the wine and others

Do not replace what is known with what is imagined

بالكوثر الموعود هذا المشرب ال

منقود من هذا الغزال الرومي

With the promised Kauthar is this drink

Filtered from this gazelle of Rome

فمضوا ولم أحرم شميم عرارها

يا عمرو بين أكارمٍ وكروم

So they left and I was not deprived of her aroma

Oh Amr between generous and vineyards