كُلُّ خطْبٍ إِذا تخطَّاك عَمْدا

وتعدَّاك إِنَّه مَا تعدَّى

Whenever adversity deliberately crosses your path

And goes beyond you, it has not gone beyond

أَحْسَن الدَّهرُ إِذ غدا البدرُ فيه

بصغيرٍ مِنْ الكواكب يُفْدى

The age was best when the full moon rose in it

With a small price of stars to be ransomed

فلئن كُنْت تُوسِعُ الدَّهر ذمّاً

فبِبُقْيَاك أُوسِعُ الدَّهْر حَمْدا

So if you make the age spacious with blame

With your survival, I make the age spacious with praise

لي مِن الحلْق كلِّهم أَلفُ بدٍّ

وإِذا غبت لم أَجد عَنْك بُدَّا

Of all people, I have a thousand with whom I am bored

And when you are absent, I find no substitute

يا قضِيباً يميسُ سُكْراً وَدلاًّ

وأَرَاهُ يَمِيسُ همّاً وَوَجْدا

O rod that intoxicates with joy and guides

And I see it intoxicating with worries and fervor

لا تغَيِّض بالحزْنِ مَاءً لِخدٍّ

طالما كان مِنْ حَبَائك يَنْدَى

Do not diminish with sorrow the water for a cheek

As long as it has been watered from your clouds

لا ولا تبكِ إِنَّني سوف أَفْدِي

ك بدَمْعِي دمعاً وبالخَدِّ خدّاً

No, and do not cry, for I will ransom

You with my tears, a tear for a tear and a cheek for a cheek

أَنا نظَّمت عٍقْدَ لَثْمٍ بَخَدَّيْ

كَ فنثَّرت من دُمُوعك عِقدَا

I strung a necklace of kissing your cheeks

But your tears scattered the necklace

أَنت تيها تَصُدُّ عَنْ طَرب النَّفْ

سِ فَلِمَ صِرْتَ للْهمومِ تَصدَّى

You, lost, fend off the ecstasy of the soul

So why have you succumbed to worries?

كُنت أَنهاكَ أَنْ تصدَّ وَعَنْ حُزْ

نِكَ هذا أَنْهَاكَ أَلاَّ تَصَدَّى

I wanted you to fend off and from your sorrow

This made you unable to fend off

فَهَب الهَمَّ بَعْضَ عُشَّاقِكَ الأَشْ

قَيْن جَدّاً بل الأَضلِّين قَصْداً

So let some of your most ardent lovers

Really, rather the most lost, suffer this worry

إِنَّ أَوْلَى أَن تَجْعَلَ الحُزْنَ عَبْداً

كُلُّ مَوْلىً غَدا له الحسنُ عبْدا

It is more fitting to make sorrow your slave

Every master the beauty has enslaved

يا غزالاً رنا وصبحاً تجلَّى

وهلالاً علا وبدراً تبدَّى

O gazelle who sang morning and night appeared

And crescent that rose and full moon that shone

موسمُ الوَرْدِ جاءَنَا ولعَمْرِي

إِن لي دائماً بخدَّيك وَرْدَا

The season of roses came upon us and by my life

I always have your cheeks as roses

فأَجبْ نَقْضِ حقَّه باجْتِمَاعٍ

يَجْعَلُ الوَعْدَ من يُسلِّيك نَقْدَا

So respond to redeeming his right with a gathering

That makes the promise a cash substitute from the one comforting you

لا تَلُمْني على هَواكَ فَعِنْدِي

لَكَ مِنْه ما لم يَدَعْ لي عِنْدَا

Do not blame me for loving you, for with me

Is what has left no excuse for you