وَجدي بِأَهيفِ قدٍّ لي بِهِ وَلعٌ
أَصبو لَهُ وَهوَ لِلواشين مُستَمِعٌ
My passion is for a slender-waisted youth of graceful stature; I am enamored of him.
I yearn for him, while he listens to sorrows.
كَم قُلتُ وَالدَمعُ مِنّي سائِلٌ هَمِعٌ
يا رَبِّ إِن لَم يَكُن في وَصلِهِ طَمَعٌ
How often I have said, while tears streamed from me in torrents:
O Lord, if there is no hope of union with him,
وَلَم يَكُن فَرَج مِن طول جَفوَتِهِ
عَجّل إلهيَ في تَبديلِ صورَتِهِ
and no relief from his long estrangement,
hasten, my God, to transform his appearance,
وَأَنقذ القَلبَ مِن بَلوى مَحبَّتِهِ
فَإِن يَزد سقم جفنيهِ بِبَهجَتِهِ
and save the heart from the ordeal of loving him.
For if the languor of his eyelids grows with his beauty,
فَاِشف السقام الَّذي في لَحظ مُقلَتِهِ
وَاِستُر مَلاحة خَدَّيهِ بِلحيَتِهِ
then cure the malady within the glance of his eye,
and veil the loveliness of his cheeks with his beard.
Sol 5.6