قَمْ فَاعْقِرِ الْهَمَّ بِالْعُقَارِ
فَالْخَمْرُ دِرْياقَةُ الخُمَارِ
Arise, soothe anxiety with wine
For liquor is the remedy for sorrows
وَهَاتِهَا يَا غُلاَمُ صِرْفَاً
حَمْرَاءَ مُصْفَرَّةَ الخِمَارِ
Bring it, o lad, pure
Reddish, yellowish wine
صَبَاحُ رَاحٍ دَجَا عَلَيْهِ
فِي فَلَكِ الدَّنِّ لَيْلُ قَارِ
A morning of respite has dawned upon him
In the orbit of baseness, a night of rest
وَجِسْمُ نُورٍ تَرَاهُ يَبْدُو
كَنَاظِرٍ فِي قَمِيْصِ نَارِ
A body of light you see appearing
As sights in a shirt of fire
مِنْ كَفِّ أَغْيَدَ فِي رُنُوِّ
وَفِي احْوَرَارٍ وَفِي نِفَارِ
From a palm thickened with intertwined branches
And blushing and scattering sparks
غُصْنُ قَوَامٍ عَلَى كَثِيْبٍ
وَلَيْلُ شَعْرٍ عَلَى نَهَارِ
A firm branch on a sand dune
And a night of hair upon daybreak
فِي وَرْدِ خَدِّ لَهُ جَنِيٍّ
رَيَحْانُ صُدْغٍ لَهُ مَدَارِ
In the rose of his cheek, for him a picker
Basil of his temple, for it an orbit
مُذَكَّرُ العَدْوِ والتَّثَنِّي
مُؤَنَّثُ الدَّلِّ كالجَوَارِي
Masculinized by enmity and duality
Feminized of feeling, like maidens
إِذَا سَقَى بالصِّغَارِ صَبَّاً
سَقَتْهُ عَيْنَاهُ بالكِبَارِ
If he quenched with small cups morning draughts
His eyes quenched him with large cups
لاَ عُذْرَ فِيْهِ لِمَنْ رَآهُ
فَلَمْ يَرُحْ خَالِعَ العِذَارِ
No excuse for one who saw him
Yet did not cast off modesty
شَرِبْتُ مِنْ كَأسِهِ عُقَارَاً
وَمِنْ ثَنَايَاهُ كَالْعُقَارِ
I drank from his cup an antidote
And from his lips like antidotes
حَتَّى إِذَا الرَّاحُ رَنَّحَتْهُ
وَشَدَّهُ السُّكْرُ بِانْكِسَارِ
Until when enjoyment relaxed him
And drunkenness contracted him painfully
وَخَالَطَتْ وَرْدَ وَجْنَتَيْهِ
فَضَاعَفَتْهُ بِجُلَّنَارِ
And mingled with the rose and apple of his cheek
So it doubled him with embers
بِتْنَا وَقَدْ ضَمَّنَا إِزَارٌ
لِلَّهِ مَا ضُمَّ فِي الإِزَارِ
We spent the night and a wrapper enclosed us
By God, what is enclosed in the wrapper!
فَظُنَّ مَا شِئْتَ بِي فَإِنِّي
أَتَيْتُ مَا شِئْتَ مِنْ خَسَارِ
So think what you will of me, for I
Came to what you wished of loss
