Claude 2

  1. أعن وسَنٍ ترنو عيونُك أم سُكْرِ

    أم اسْترَقَتْ من بابلٍ صنعةَ السِّحْرِ

    Is it the magic of youthful eyes that you glance with, or is it intoxication

    Or have you stolen the artistry of magic from Babylon

  2. وهلْ حملَتْ تلك الروادفُ أغصناً

    تأوّدَ في أوراقِ أبرادِها الخُضْرِ

    And could those litters have borne branches

    That have turned green in the leaves of their greenness

  3. وما لحُدَوجِ العامليّةِ حُرِّمَتْ

    زيارتُها إلا على المَهْمَهِ القَفْرِ

    And why is a visit to the lonely deserts forbidden

    Except to the obstinate loner

  4. كفى حزَناً أن لا تَزاوُرَ بينَنا

    على القُربِ إلا بالخيالِ الذي يسْري

    It's enough of sorrow that you don't visit between us

    Except by the imagination that flows

  5. وقَفْرٍ كأطرافِ المواضي قطعتُهُ

    برَكْبٍ كأطرافِ المُثقّفَةِ السُمرِ

    And I crossed a desert as vast as the edges of the meadows

    With a caravan as noble as the feathered arrows

  6. وقد شقّ صدرُ الأفْقِ عن قلب بدرِه

    كما نشَروا طيّ الصحيفةِ عن عَشْرِ

    And the horizon has split open about the heart of its full moon

    As they spread out the page about the tenth

  7. وما راقَني إلا حمائمُ أنجُمٍ

    تحومُ من الفجرِ والمُطلِّ على نهْرِ

    And I was not pleased but by the doves of stars

    That circle from dawn and overlook the river

  8. إذا بلغْت بابَ الأعزِّ ركائبي

    فلا شُدَّتِ الأكوارُ منها على ظهْرِ

    When my brave steeds reach the door of the most glorious

    No twisting back from them on the road

  9. إمامٌ إذا استنصرْتَهُ في مُلمّةٍ

    قَضاها ببيضٍ من عزائمه بُتْرُ

    A leader whom if you seek help from in adversity

    He decides it with white uncompromising determination

  10. نوالٌ كما قد سحّ مُنبجِسِ الحَيا

    وعزمٌ كما قد شُبّ متّقدُ الجُمْرِ

    Giving like the pouring rain pouring from the clouds

    And resolve like the flaming embers

  11. عليه يمينٌ أن تفيضَ يمينُه

    بيُمْنٍ وأن تنهلّ يُسْراهُ باليُسْرِ

    He swears with his right hand that his right hand spills

    Good fortune and that his left hand flows with ease

  12. سأحمِلُ من فِكْري إليه طرائفاً

    من الشِعْرِ قامتْ للمُقصِّرِ بالعُذْرِ

    I will carry to him from my thoughts subtleties

    Of poetry that excuses the one who falls short

  13. خفضتُ بها الأشواقَ حتى كأنّها

    وإن رفعتْني الآن من أحرفِ الجرِّ

    I have lowered with it my longings until it is as though

    If it raised me now from the prepositions of attachment