Sol 6.1

  1. وَدالِيَة علها الصُّبح علا

    فَأَسكَرَها من شَراب الغمام

    And a vine that dawn watered once more,

    Making it drunk on the drink of the clouds,

  2. يَسيلُ عَلى الرَّوضِ يحيي شذاه

    صَريع الحميا وَميت الغَرام

    Flowing over the garden, reviving its fragrance,

    Laid low by wine's fire and dead of passion.

  3. شربنا عَلى الصَّفو مِنها كُؤوساً

    وَهَل يَنشر الصَّفو غَير المدام

    We drank cups of it in serenity—

    And does anything but wine spread serenity?

  4. بِها ثار حسي فَأذكى بِرَأسي

    لَهيباً من النور بَعد الظَّلام

    Through it my senses stirred, kindling in my head

    A blaze of light after the darkness.

  5. أَراني سُروري كَأَحزان نَفسي

    مُثارا لِبُؤسي بحب مضام

    It showed me my joy, like my soul's sorrows,

    Stirred to misery by a love wronged.

  6. أَيا عورَة البِئر زيدي أَنينا

    وَصبي دُموعاً كَفَيضِ المَطر

    O exposed opening of the well, increase your moaning,

    And pour out tears like a torrent of rain.

  7. فَأَنت بِنَجواك تحيين رَوضاً

    فَتشرِق أَزهارُه كَالدُّرَر

    For you, with your whispers, revive a garden,

    And its blossoms shine like pearls.

  8. وَأَمّا أَنا فَأَنيني وَدَمعي

    مَع الدَّهر ما لَهُما من ثَمَر

    But as for me, my moaning and my tears

    Bear no fruit with the passing of time,

  9. سِوى البُعد عَن غايَة أَفتَديها

    بِأَضواء عَيني وَنور القَمَر

    Except distance from a goal I would ransom

    With the gleams of my eye and the moon's light.

  10. وَمن كانَ يَهوى مُرادا بَعيدا

    يَعيشُ عَلى الجَمر بَينَ البَشَر

    And whoever yearns for a far-off goal

    Lives on embers among humankind.

  11. كَذا كُنت أَحسو من الصبح خمري

    إِلى أَن طَوى اللَّيل روح النَّهار

    Thus I kept sipping my wine from dawn,

    Until night enfolded the spirit of day,

  12. عَلى ضَجَّة الطير في الأَيك سكرى

    بِبغيتها في وُصول القَرار

    Amid the clamor of birds in the thickets, drunk

    With their longing to reach a resting place.

  13. فَعانَق هذا الوُجود دجاه

    وَنامَ عَميقاً كَنَوم البحار

    Then this world embraced its darkness,

    And slept deeply, as the seas sleep.

  14. وَلَم يبق إِلا عُيون الدَّراري

    وَساقية تَلتَوي في اِنكِسار

    And nothing remained but the eyes of bright stars

    And a stream winding in dejection.

  15. مَشاهد أَلهَت شعوري وَحِسي

    فَغبت مَع النَّفس في الإِعتِبار

    Scenes that engrossed my feelings and my senses,

    So I withdrew with my soul into reflection.

  16. أَفقت عَلى نَفحة من نَسيم

    تعوض لِلنَّفسِ ما قد ذهب

    I awoke to a breath of breeze,

    Restoring to the soul what had been lost,

  17. وَإِشراق بَدرٍ سَما في علاء

    يَصب عَلى الكَون ذوبَ الذَّهَب

    And to the radiance of a full moon risen on high,

    Pouring molten gold over the universe.

  18. نَسيم وَنور إِلى الذِّهن كانا

    شُروقاً ذكت فيهِ بنت العنب

    Breeze and light were, to the mind,

    A sunrise in which the daughter of the grape blazed.

  19. جَمال بِهِ أَنعش السحر روحي

    كَما أَنعَش الطَّيف روحَ المحب

    A beauty through which enchantment revived my soul,

    Just as the dream-vision revived the lover's soul.

  20. سرت مِنهُ نَحوَ الأَماني فَغابَت

    مَع النجم إِذ يَنتَشي كل صب

    I journeyed from it toward hopes, and they vanished

    With the star, as every lovesick lover grows drunk.