صَحا عَنِ اللَهوِ صاحٍ عافَهُ خُلُقاً

فَقامَ يَخلَعُ سِربالاً لَهُ خَلَقا

The reveler awoke, a man refined,

And rose to doff his cloak, a thing sublime,

وَعَطَّلَ الكَأسَ مِن شَقراءَ سابِحَةٍ

أَلا كَفاها بِرَيعانِ الصِبا طَلَقا

He passed the wine, though freely it had flowed

In youth's bright morn, and that sufficed for time.

وَرُبَّ لَيلَةِ وَصلٍ قَد لَهَوتُ بِها

مُغازِلاً قَلِقاً أَو شارِباً شَفَقا

Full many a night of love my heart has glowed,

Toying, awake, or slumbering past prime,

لا نَنثُرُ الدُرَّ فيهِ بَينَنا كَلِماً

حَتّى أُقَبِّلُهُ مِن مَبسَمٍ نَسَقا

We will not strew our pearls before the swine

Until I've kissed his lips in raptured rhyme.

وَرُبَّ غُرَّةٍ عَبرى قَد شَرَقتُ بِها

في مَوقِفٍ لِلنَوى أَضرَمتُهُ حُرَقا

And many a bright-cheeked beauty have I eyed

At trysts which for the pine did pant and pine,

تَخالُ ما اِحمَرَّ مِن خَدَّيهِ مُلتَهِباً

بِها وَما اِسوَدَّ مِن صُدغَيهِ مُحتَرِقا

Seeming as if his glowing cheeks were dyed

By her, as black as jet his mole divine.