وكباسه حلي الشباب لعوبة
بطرق الهوى عقادة للزمائم
And a playful girl, plundering youth of its adornments,
And a playful cluster of youth's jewels,
versed in love’s ways, a knotter of reins;
Tightly knotting the reins along love's paths;
غزال صريم في رجوم صوارم
وبدر تمام في نجوم تمائم
a gazelle of the dark night amid meteors of keen swords,
A gazelle of the thicket amid volleys of keen swords,
and a full moon amid the stars of amulets.
And a full moon amid the stars of amulets.
وكان رقادي بين كاس وروضة
فصار سهادي بين طرف وصارم
My sleep once lay between a wine-cup and a garden;
And my slumber once lay between a cup and a garden;
then my sleeplessness came to lie between a glance and a sword.
Then my sleeplessness came between a glance and a blade.
ولولا نسيب مطرب من قصائدي
لما احتال طيف في زيارة نائم
And were it not for an enrapturing love-prelude among my odes,
And were it not for a stirring love lyric from my poems,
no dream-phantom could have contrived to visit a sleeper.
No phantom would have contrived to visit a sleeper.
Sol 6.1