تَحجبت يا ناظِري
عَن الناظر الساهر
You have veiled yourself from my sight,
O watcher, from this wakeful gazer,
فَما غَبت عَن خاطِري
بِبَعدك عَن ناظِري
Yet you've not vanished from my mind,
Though you're far from my watcher.
بِصورك الشَوق لي
عَلى البُعد كَالحاضر
In longing, your image is with me,
Though you're far, as if you're present.
وَيَسبقني بِالقِيا
م قَلبيَ بَل سائِري
And ahead of me in meeting you
Goes my heart, yes, my very being.
لَقَد حارَ سَقمي عَلى
ضَعيف بِلا ناصر
My sickness was perplexed, so weak
Without a helper or defender.
وَعلمهُ الفَتك لي
شَبا طَرفك الساحر
Your flirting glance taught it to kill me -
No youth left, save tears that tender.
فَلم يَبقَ غَير الغَلي
ل وَالمَدمَع الماطر
No sound left but the hissing sigh
That gnaws my wasting bones asunder.
وَغَير صَفير الزَفي
ر في عَظمِيَ الناخر
My stubborn sleep has learned through you
To be remote, O you who wander!
وَعلمت نَومي الصُدود
بِصَدك يا هاجِري
No thought has passed across my lids,
Or conscious mind they shelter under.
فَما مَرَ لي خاطِراً
بِجفن وَلا خاطر
I've added the gloom of sorrows to
My murky night of separation.
أَضفت اِعتِكار الهُموم
إِلى لَيلي العاكر
Maybe before my death I'll see
You here again, O you who fled me!
تَرى قَبل مَوتي أَرا
ك يا هاجِري زائِري
O you who blame me in my love -
Don't I deserve a pardon, instead?
وَيا عَذّلي في الهَوى
أَما لِيَ مِن عاذر
O night of my beloved's estrangement -
Don't you have an end, some finish?
وَيا لَيل هَجر الحَبيب
أَما لَك مِن آخر
Rise against the tyranny of darkness!
By the right of waking in your languid eye,
وَواحربي يا ظَلو
م مِن حُكمك الجائر
By the rose that blooms in your garden -
Temptress of the watcher, fascinate me
بِحَق السقام الصَحيح
في جفنك الفاتر
With your aromatic charm, and less
Of the bird's melody deny me.
وَبِالوَرد في وَجنَتي
ك يا فتنة الناظر
If you wish, then spill my blood,
Fear no avenger will come after.
أَحيني مِما يَفيك
مِن قرقف عاطر
O you who toy with the blood of the enamored,
Do you think that is lawful behavior?
أَقَلَّ إِذا ما بَخلت
مِن نَغمة الطائر
Fear no inhibition - for in
The religion of love I've done no wrong.
وَإِن شئت فاسفك دَمي
وَلا تَخشَ مِن واتر
O you who've shunned me without crime,
Though God knows well what is going on.
يا عابِثاً بِدَم المُتَيم
أَتَرى يَحل لَكَ المحرم
O you wearing the garb of beauty perfected,
And consummate, completed charm!
لا تَخشَ مِن حَرج فَفي
دين المَحبة لَستُ تَأثم
O you clothing me in the robe of misery
As tears embroider it fold by fold!
يا مُعرِضاً عَني بِغي
ر جِناية وَاللَهُ يَعلم
O you to whom the stars grow bright
If you would smile or speak a word!
يا لابِساً حُلَلَ الجَما
ل الفَرد وَالحُسن المُتَمم
Why in your estrangement are my days
Darker than the blackest night?
يا مَلبسي ثَوب الضَنا
وَالدَمع يَرقمهُ بِعَندَم
I am, O my companion in both worlds,
As delicate as your soft features.
يا مَن تَضيءُ لَهُ الدِيا
جر أَن تَبسم أَو تَكلم
Why does that cruel heart not soften
To reproach, and show compassion?
ما بال أَيّامي بِهَجرك
مِن ظَلام اللَيل أَظلَم
O you whose body almost disappears
In its smooth delicacy when glanced at,
أَنا يا رَفيق الوَجنَتين
رَقيق عارضك المُنمنم
And whose cheeks almost stain red
With kisses imagined, not acted.
لِمَ لا يرق فُؤادَهُ القاسي
لِمدنفِهِ وَيَرحَم
Be gentle - in you burns the ember
Of youth not yet turned into ash.
يا مَن يَكاد مِن اللَطا
فة جِسمَهُ بِاللَحظ يَتهم
O you whose flirting is more knowing than kings' -
Do you know my verse about you is magic, not forbidden?
وَتَكاد تُدمى وَجَنتا
هُ لِكَونِها بِالوَهم تَلثَم
O you whose rule penetrates
All my limbs since you took command!
رِفقاً بِعان فيك مَن
جَمر الصَبابة قَد تَجسم
O you I obey - if I conceal
This evident love, that is no concealment.
يا مَن بِفَن السحر
مُقلَته مِن الملكين أَعلَم
My tears have contradicted you,
And that is hard for me, so know!
أَتراك تَدري أَن
نَظمي فيكَ سحر لا يَحرم
They show, against my will, what you
Ordered concealed, and tears interpret.
يا نافذ الأَحكام في
كُل الجَوارح مُذ تَحكم
My view is to let them be ambiguous,
Though you blame them and resent.
يا آمري إِن أَكتُم ال
حُب المُبين وَلَيسَ بِكَتم
Let imagination torment and pain them,
Make them suffer and lament.
قَد خالفتَكَ مَدامِعي
وَيَعزُّ ذاكَ عَلَيَّ فَاِعلَم
Let it say my guides have failed me
On my path to you, and I'm lost.
أَبدَت بِرَغمي ما أَمَر
ت بِكتمِهِ وَالدَمع تَرجَم
Who visits youth but dangers
And terrors make him later regret?
فَالرَأي عِندي أَن يَمُرّ
بِها الغُموض وَلَو تَلوم
Maybe her tears will diminish,
And the king's command grow firm again.
وَمُرِ الخَيال بِأَن يُعا
تبها وَيُؤلمها وَيَألَم
O you who killed with love -
Even enemies are more merciful than you!
وَيَقول قَد خَضلت ذُيو
لي في طَريقي مِنكَ بِالدَم
You made him drink the cup of poison
Unjustly, so he died, not having sinned.
مَن زارَ صَبّاً دونَهُ ال
أَخطار وَالأَهوال يَندَم
Passion cried out with his soul -
Hand it over, and be safe!
فَعَسى تَخف دُموعَها
وَيَعود أَمر الملك مُحكَم
No killer has ever lived
Who killed first and stayed unharmed.
يا فاتِكاً بِمحبهِ
إِن الأَعادي مِنكَ أَرحَم
جَرعتهُ كَأس الرَدى
ظُلماً فَماتَ وَما تَظلم
صاحَ الغَرام بِروحِهِ
هَيا فَاسلمها وَسلَم
ما كانَ أَول مَن قَتل
ت يَعيش قاتِلُهُ وَيَسلَم
