وصادحٍ في ذُرَى الأغصانِ نَبهَّني

من غَفْوةٍ كان فيها الطَّيْفُ قد طَرَقا

A bird startled me out of a slumber

In which the phantom had come knocking

فكان بين تَلاقينا وفُرْقَتنا

كما تَبسَّم برق غازَلَ الأُفُقا

So between our meeting and parting

Was like a smile of lightning flirting with the horizon

فقلتُ لاصِحْتَ إلا في يَدَىْ قَرِمٍ

غَرْثان يُورِد فيكَ المُدْيَة العَلَقْا

I said, you sing only in the hands of a vintner

Who makes the tavern flow into you, intoxicated

وقمتُ أنتزِع الأوكار من حَنقٍ

مني وأستلبُ الأغصانَ والورقا

And I got up to snatch the nests away in anger

Of me, and seize the branches and the leaves

لو ناح للشوقِ مثلي كنتُ أَعذِره

لكنّه مَوَّه الدعوى وما صَدَقا

If one had longed like I do, I'd empathize

But he disguised the claim and didn't prove honest

عَهْدِى به في أمانٍ منه مقترِبا

مُطَرِّبا فوق غُصْنَىْ بانةٍ سَمَقا

My pact with him was safe from him drawing near

Cheerful above my branch, conspicuously perching

لولا ليالٍ لنا بالبانِ سالفةٌ

كررتُ من زَفراتي فيه فاحترقا

If not for nights we had at the tavern past

I'd repeat my sighs in it, so it caught fire