Claude 2

  1. أَيُّ ذَنبٍ في هَواكم أَذنَبه

    مغرَمٌ لم يقضِ منكم أَربَه

    What sin in loving you has he committed,

    A passionate lover whose thirst was never quenched,

  2. أَوجبَ البينُ له فَرطَ الأَسى

    بجفاكم يا تُرى ما أَوجبَه

    Separation made intense sorrow obligatory,

    By your aloofness - I wonder - what did it necessitate?

  3. لَيسَ نُكراً بكُمُ إِعجابُهُ

    من رأَى شَيئاً عَجيباً أَعجبَه

    Your admiration is no novelty to them,

    Whoever saw something wondrous admired it,

  4. لا تَلوموه إِذا هامَ بكم

    وَصَبا شَوقاً وأَبدى وَصَبَه

    Do not blame him if he is infatuated with you

    And poured passion and expressed his fervor,

  5. ما أَلَذَّ الوَجدَ في حبِّكُمُ

    وَعَذابي فيكُمُ ما أَعذبَه

    How sweet is ecstasy in loving you!

    And my torment in you - how sweet it is!

  6. يا نزولَ الخَيفِ ما ضَرَّكمُ

    لَو وَصَلتم من قَطعتُم سَبَبه

    O my descending fear! How did you harm them

    If you had united those whom you separated?

  7. مُستهامٌ خانَه الصَبرُ فمذ

    بعُدت أَظعانُكم ما قَربَه

    Yearning betrayed him so since

    Your absence prolonged, he lost composure,

  8. كُلَّما لاحَ بَريقٌ شاقَه

    وإذا هبَّ نَسيمٌ أَطرَبَه

    Whenever a smile shone, he was stupefied

    And if a breeze blew, it elated him

  9. منذُ أَقصَتهُ النَوى عن داركم

    ما أَساغَ الدَهرُ يَوماً مَشرَبَه

    Since destiny distanced him from your homes

    No day has been palatable to him

  10. وإذا رامَ هُجوعاً طَرفه

    هزَّه الشَوقُ إليكم فاِنتَبَه

    And if his glance attempted to return

    Yearning for you shook him and he was alert

  11. وَبشرقيَّ الحِمى من ضارِجٍ

    بَدرُ حُسنٍ منه في البدر شَبَه

    The crescent of beauty resembles him

    A bright moon - from it - has its likeness

  12. أَضرَم الأَحشاء وَجداً وأَسىً

    وَسَبى العَقلَ غَراماً وَسَبَه

    Passion and sorrow have ignited his entrails

    And love has captivated his reason and seized it

  13. أَسمَرٌ لو غالبَ اللَيلُ به

    هاجمَ الصُبح عليه غَلبَه

    A dark complexioned man - if night overcomes him

    Dawn attacks him and defeats him

  14. لا يَرى في الحُبِّ عتباً وإذا

    عتبَ الصبُّ دَلالاً أَعتَبَه

    He sees no blame in love and if

    The lover blames - he finds it flirtatious

  15. مزجَ الدلَّ بأَعراض الجَفا

    وَحَكى الإِدلالُ منه غضبَه

    He mixed coquetry into aloofness

    And told of flirtation from it out of anger

  16. فإذا رام محبٌّ عتبَهُ

    خَفي الأَمرُ عليه واِشتبَه

    So if a lover intends to blame

    The matter becomes confusing for him and indistinct