كلّنا في جماله ذو هيامِ

وعلينا من حبّه دار كأسُ

We are all enamored with his beauty,

And from his love we have a house of sorrow.

رشقتنا ألحاظُه بسهامٍ

من جفونٍ وحاجب العين قوسُ

His glances have shot us with arrows

From eyelids whose eyebrows are bows.

قد أصاب المرمى وأثخن جرحاً

قلب صبٍّ وما لذي الوجد ترسُ

He has struck the target and inflicted deep wounds

Upon a passionate heart that has no shield.

فافهم الأمر بالمذاق وحقّق

ثمّ فرّق وخمرة الجمع فاحسُ

So understand this through taste, and realize

Then separate, though love's wine is mingled.

لا تكن في سلاسل الفهم مأسو

راً بعقلٍ له من الوهم حبسُ

Do not be in chains of understanding gloomy,

With a mind that from fantasies has fetters.

كالفقيه الّذي تردَّى بنفسٍ

وله من هواه طيّش درسُ

Like the jurist who threw himself down

While from his passion came reckless folly.

واغرس الحبّ في رياض التصابي

فبها للعشّاق قد طاب غرسُ

And plant love in the gardens of accord

For lovers there have found planting sweet.

وتمسّك بحبل حبّ الغواني

ما على من يحبّ حسناءَ بأسُ

And hold to the rope of the love of the beautiful ones -

No harm upon one who loves a beauty.

مت لتحيا وافنَ لتبقى كأهل ال

حبّ عُميٌ عمّا سواه وخرسُ

I died to live and perished to remain

Like love's folk, blind to all but the beloved, deaf, mute.