من نصيري على عشيرِ نوارِ
من مجيري من هذه الأكدارِ
Who will aid me against Nawar’s clan?
Who will champion me against Nawār’s kin?
Who will deliver me from these sorrows?
Who will shelter me from these troubles?
راقبوها فمنَّعوها وما بي
ني وبين المزار غير جدار
They watched her and barred her; yet there is nothing
They watched her and kept her away, though between me
between me and the trysting place but a wall.
and the place I visit there is only a wall.
ما اكتفى القلب بالغرام فساداً
ولظىً فاستزدته بالعقار
My heart was not content with love’s ruin
My heart was not content with love’s ruin
and flame, so I fed it still more with wine.
and blaze, so I sought more for it through wine.
ما أراني بشربيَ الخمر إلا
مستغيثاً من الحسام بنار
In drinking wine, I see myself only
In drinking wine, I see myself as nothing but
as one seeking rescue from the sword with fire.
one turning to fire for rescue from the keen sword.
هنت بالعشقِ يا معذبتي بع
د اعتزاز بالفضل واستكبار
Love has humbled me, my tormentress, after
Love has abased me, O my tormentor, after
pride in my merit and haughtiness.
pride in my merit and haughty self-regard.
وبغيضٌ إليَّ عيشي وقد أع
رضتِ عني وسؤددي واشتهاري
My life is hateful to me, now that you have turned
And my life is hateful to me, now that you have turned
away from me, despite my stature and renown.
away from me, my eminence, and my fame.
اضمني لي استماعَ أخبارِ قومي
بعد موتي عن نكبة الأشعار
Promise me that I shall hear my people’s news
Promise me you will listen to my people’s reports
after my death—of the calamity befallen poetry.
after my death, of poetry’s calamity.
وأنا الآن أشرب السمَّ مختا
راً وألقي بالنفس تحت القطار
And now I drink the poison of my own choosing,
And now I drink poison by my own
and cast myself beneath the train,
choice, and throw myself beneath the train.
مستهيناً بكل من ظن عاراً
من كروبٍ إلى ذنوبٍ فراري
scorning everyone who deemed it shameful—
Scorning all who saw disgrace
my flight from anguish into sin.
in my flight from anguish into sins.
لست ألقى عن الحياة سلوّاً
كحديثٍ عن فتنتي وانتحاري
I find no way to forget this life
I find no solace for parting with life
like the tale of my passion and suicide.
like talk of my infatuation and my suicide.
والحياة الأخرى أبر وأبقى
بعد عفو المهيمن الغفار
The life hereafter is purer and more enduring
And the life to come is kinder and more enduring
once the All-Ruling, All-Forgiving grants pardon.
after the pardon of the Guardian, the All-Forgiving.
رب لا أستطيع ردَّ الذي تق
ضي فهبني صبراً على الأقدار
My Lord, I cannot avert what You decree;
Lord, I cannot avert what You
so grant me patience in the face of fate.
decree; so grant me patience in the face of fate.
Sol 6.1