نَمَّتْ بِمَا تَحْنُو عَلَيْهِ ضُلُوعُهُ
أَسْقامُهُ وَشُجونُه وَدُمُوعُهُ
His ailments grew with what his ribs bend over,
His sorrows and his tears and his grievances.
جَلَبَتْ نَواظِرهُ لِمُهْجَتِهِ أَسىً
وَجَوىً يَذُوبُ بِبَعْضِهِ مَجْموعُهُ
His glances brought to his beloved sorrow
And intimacy that with some of it melts his whole being.
مُغْرىً بِوَسْنَانِ اللِّحَاظِ وَإِنَّما
في حُبِّهِ هَجَرَ المُحِبَّ هُجُوعُهُ
Tempted by the softness of the cheeks, though indeed
In his love, the lover was deprived of his fervor.
أَبْدَى مُحَيَّاهُ وَأَسْبَلَ شَعْرَهُ
وَالبَدْرُ يَحْسُنُ في الظَّلامِ طُلُوعُهُ
He showed his smile and let down his hair,
And the moon looks beautiful rising in the darkness.
لِلطَّرْفِ فيهِ سَناً وَفيهِ بَارِقٌ
هَذا وذَاكَ يَرُوقُهُ وَيَروعُهُ
For the eye he has glory and in it a flashing,
This and that pleases him and makes him shudder.
دَبَّتْ عَقارِبُ صُدْغِه في خَدِّهِ
فَغَدا وقَلْبِي في الهَوَى مَلْسُوعُهُ
The minutes of his temple crept on his cheek,
So he became while my heart in love is burnt.
يا وَافِرَ الهَجْرِ الطَّويلِ تَولُّهي
خَبَبٌ أَلا وَعْدٌ يَجُودُ سَرِيعُهُ
O source of long estrangement, beguile me,
Indeed, a sincere promise quickly fulfills.
نَبِّه جُفُونَكَ مِنْ نُعَاسِ فُتُورِهَا
لِتَرى مُحبّاً ذابَ فِيكَ جَمِيعُهُ
Awaken your drowsy eyelids
To see a lover melted in you entirely.
ما أَنْتَ يا طَرْفي بِمُتَّهَمٍ عَلى
سِرِّي فَكَيْفَ إِلى الوُشَاةِ تُذيعُهُ
My eye, you are not accused of
My secret, so how to the slanderers spread it?
حَمَّلتني ثِقْلَ الهَوى وَوَضَعْتَهُ
عِنْدِي فَهَلْ مَحْمُولُهُ مَوْضُوعُهُ
You burdened me the weight of love and put it
With me, so is its carried its placed?
مَنْ لي بِمَنْ لَوْ سَام قَلْبِي غَيْرُهُ
ما كُنْتُ بالدُّنْيا الغَداةَ أَبِيعُهُ
Who is for me the one if he was patient with my heart,
I would not in the morning trade it for the world.
دَعْنِي وَسَهْمُ اللَّحْظِ مِنْهُ فَإِننّي
صَبٌّ كَما شاءَ الغَرامُ صَرِيعُهُ
Leave me as the arrow of the gaze is from it,
For I am torrential as the passion wished subdued.
