تبتُ يا خمر عنك كَرهاً وقد كن

تبتُ يا خمر عنك كَرهاً وقد كن

ت أعاصي في صحتي كل زجرِ

ت أعاصي في صحتي كل زجرِ

I have renounced you, wine, unwillingly, though I once—

I have renounced you, O wine, unwillingly, though I used

—defied every rebuke while I was healthy.

to defy every admonition while in good health.

ونهاني الطبيب عنك ولا أج

ونهاني الطبيب عنك ولا أج

هل للطب أي نهي وأمرِ

هل للطب أي نهي وأمرِ

The physician forbade me you; nor am I igno—

The physician forbade me from you, and I am not

—rant of any prohibition or command of medicine.

ignorant of any prohibition or command of medicine.

لا أرى منك في الضنى طب بطني

لا أرى منك في الضنى طب بطني

بعدما كنت في الأسى طب صدري

بعدما كنت في الأسى طب صدري

In my wasting illness, I find in you no cure for my belly,

I find in you no cure for my belly in wasting sickness,

though once, in sorrow, you were the cure for my heart.

after you had been, in sorrow, the cure for my breast.

ليت دائي مما يعالج بالخم

ليت دائي مما يعالج بالخم

ر فألقى العذول فيها بعذري

ر فألقى العذول فيها بعذري

Would that my ailment were one treated with wi—

Would that my ailment were one treated with

—ne, so I could meet the reproacher with my excuse for drinking it.

wine, so I could face the reproacher with my excuse for it.

كنت أشكو بالشعر هنداً فأمسى

كنت أشكو بالشعر هنداً فأمسى

لتَشَكِّي السقام والسهد شعري

لتَشَكِّي السقام والسهد شعري

I once lamented Hind in verse; now

I used to complain of Hind in verse; now

my poetry laments sickness and sleeplessness.

my verse is for lamenting sickness and sleeplessness.