أَمسَيتَ إِذ رَحَلَ الشَبابُ حَزينا
لَيتَ اللَيالِيَ قَبلَ ذاكَ فَنينا
I became sad when youth departed
Would that those nights before had perished
ما لِلمَنازِلِ لا يُجِبنَ حَزينا
أَصَمِمنَ أَم قَدُمَ المَدى فَبَلينا
Why do dwellings not respond, sorrowful?
Are they deaf or has time worn us out?
قَفراً تَقادَمَ عَهدَهُنَّ عَلى البِلى
فَلَبِثنَ في عَدَدِ الشُهورِ سِنينا
Desolate, their era passed into decay
So they lasted as months of years
وَتَرى العَواذِلَ يَبتَدِرنَ مَلامَتي
وَإِذا أَرَدنَ سِوى هَوايَ عُصينا
You see the maidens begin to blame me
When they desire but my passion disobedient
بَكَرَ العَواذِلُ بِالمَلامَةِ بَعدَما
قَطَعَ الخَليطُ بِساجِرٍ لِيَبينا
The maidens were early with blame after
The motley throng made clear with collision
أَمسَينَ إِذ بانَ الشَبابُ صَوادِفاً
لَيتَ اللَيالِيَ قَبلَ ذاكَ فَنينا
I became when youth was manifest, chance-taking
Would that those nights before had perished
إِنَّ الَّذينَ غَدَوا بِلُبِّكَ غادَروا
وَشَلاً بِعَينِكَ ما يَزالُ مَعينا
Those who went forth with your heart left
And limping with your eye still aiding
غَيَّضنَ مِن عَبَراتِهِنَّ وَقُلنَ لي
ماذا لَقيتَ مِنَ الهَوى وَلَقينا
They shed tears and said to me
What did you find of passion and we found?
وَلَقَد تَسَقَّطَني الوُشاةُ فَصادَفوا
حَصِراً بِسِرِّكِ يا أُمَيمَ ضَنينا
The slanderers did make me stumble and they found
A confinement with your secret, O Umayma, grieving
كَلَّفتُ حاجَةَ ما أُكَلِّفُ ضُمَّراً
مِثلَ القِسِيِّ مِنَ السَراءِ بُرينا
I tasked the need of what I task concealed
Like the stern one in easiness, quitting
روحوا العَشِيَّةَ رَوحَةً مَذكورَةً
إِن حِرنَ حِرنا أَو هُدينَ هُدينا
They went an evening going mentioned
Whether stirred stirred or guided guided
وَرَمَوا بِهِنَّ سَواهِماً عُرضَ الفَلا
إِن مُتنَ مُتنَ وَإِن حُيِينَ حُيِينا
And they cast at them distracters expose of success
Whether extended extended or living lived
عيسٌ تُكَلَّفُ كُلَّ أَغبَرَ نازِحٍ
يَطوي تَنائِفَ بِالمَلا وَحُزونا
Jesus you task every dusty departing
Folding the hems with tiredness and gloomy
حَتّى بَلينَ مِنَ الوَجيفِ وَرَدَّها
بُعدُ المَفاوِزِ كَالقِسِيِّ حَنينا
Until worn from the carrion and it returned them
The distance of horizons like the stern, yearning
وَلَدَ الأُخَيطِلَ نِسوَةٌ مِن تَغلِبٍ
هُنَّ الخَبائِثُ بِالخَبيثِ غُذينا
The Ukhaydir begat women of Taghlib
They are the wicked with the wicked fed
إِنَّ الَّذي حَرَمَ المَكارِمَ تَغلِباً
جَعَلَ النُبُوَّةَ وَالخِلافَةَ فينا
That which forbade honor Taghlib
Made the prophecy and the caliphate among us
هَل تَملِكونَ مِنَ المَشاعِرِ مَشعَراً
أَو تَشهَدونَ مَعَ الأَذانِ أَذينا
Do you possess from the sanctuaries a sanctuary
Or testify with the call, ears?
مُضَرٌ أَبي وَأَبو المُلوكِ فَهَل لَكُم
يا خُزرَ تَغلِبَ مِن أَبٍ كَأَبينا
Mudar my father and father of kings so do you, Khazraj and Taghlib, have one like our father?
This is my cousin as caliph in Damascus
هاذا اِبنُ عَمّي في دِمَشقَ خَليفَةً
لَو شِئتُ ساقَكُمُ إِلَيَّ قَطينا
If I wished I'd lead you to me fettered
