Claude 2

  1. تَرى آثارَهُم إِلّا أَماني

    طَلولاً بَعدَ ما كانَت مَغاني

    Their traces I see nought but wishes

    Desolate after what were revelries

  2. كَأَلفاظٍ خَلَت مِن ساكِنيها

    فَيا شَوقي إِلى تِلكَ المَعاني

    Like words devoid of dwellers

    So my longing for those meanings!

  3. إِلَيها عُدتُ ذا دَمعٍ شُجاعٍ

    أَعودُ بِهِ عَلى صَبرٍ جَبانِ

    To them I returned with brave tears

    I return on patience coward

  4. وَهَل لِلمَرءِ إلا حَرُّ نارٍ

    إِذا ما لَم يَنَل بَردَ الجِنانِ

    What's to man but heat of fire

    If he attains not the cool of gardens?

  5. وَمَجلِسِ لَذَّةٍ قَلَّبتُ عَيني

    بِساحَتِهِ فَلَم أَحمَد عِياني

    And a seat of bliss I turned my eye

    Upon its court but praised not my condition

  6. وَلا ساقٍ بِهِ إِلّا عَذولٌ

    سَقاهُ اللَهُ مِمّا قَد سَقاني

    Nor a comrade but for unfaithfulness

    May God give him of what he gave me!

  7. عَذولي ما رَأَيتُكَ لي صَديقاً

    إِذا ما كانَ شَأنُكَ غَيرَ شاني

    My comrade, I saw you no true friend

    When your affair was other than mine

  8. فَما هَذا مَكانَكَ مِن دِيارٍ

    عَرَفتَ عَلى البِلادِ بِها مَكاني

    So what is this your place of lands

    You knew the countries by it my place?

  9. عَفَت مِن ناظِرِيَّ فَما أَراها

    وَعَفّاني السَقامُ فَما تَراني

    She turned away from myglance and I see her not

    And sickness made me turn away so you see me not

  10. وَذَكَّرَني وَلا وَالحُبِّ أَنسى

    عُهوداً غُصنُ بانٍ غُصنَ بانِ

    And it reminded me—no, by love I forget not—

    Trysts a Ghulshan branch, Ghulshan branch

  11. وَرَوضاً مُسفِراً لي عَن وُجوهِ

    وَطَيراً مُخبِراً لي عَن قِيانِ

    And a garden revealing to me faces

    And birds informing me of dwellings

  12. فَيا لَيتَ المَكانَ يَمُرُّ عَنّا

    مُرورَ وَفا المَكانِ مِنَ الزَمانِ

    Would that time might pass upon us

    Like the fidelity of place passing time

  13. فَيا عَجَباً لِفانٍ مِنهُ يَبكي

    لِفانٍ فيكَ يُضمِرُ غَيرَ فانِ

    What wonder in one who weeps for one who

    In you harbors other than caprice?

  14. وَطَيِّ وَدائِعِ الخَطَراتِ وَجدٌ

    طَواهُ الذِكرُ عَنهُم بَل طَوانِي

    Wind up and deposit the perils, a grief

    Remembrance concealed them from me, no concealed me

  15. يُقيمُ عَلى الزَمانِ وَلَو تَقَضّى

    مَدى عُمري أَقامَ بلا زَمانِ

    It stays over time, and if my life span

    Were fulfilled, it would stay sans time

  16. فَيا نَدَمي وَيا ظُلمَ اللَيالي

    وَظُلمي اليَومَ في عَضِّ البَنانِ

    So oh my regret and dark of nights

    And my darkness this day in youth of life!