1.  فؤاد دأبه الذكَرُ

    وعين ملؤها عبرُ

    A heart whose constant habit is remembrance,

    And an eye filled with tears,

  2. ونفس في شبيبتها

    وجسم مسّهُ الكبرُ

    And a soul still in its youth,

    And a body touched by old age,

  3. وآمال مضيّعة

    ووقت كلهُ هدرُ

    And hopes laid to waste,

    And time all squandered,

  4. وعيش عذبهُ مضض

    وعمر صفوه كدرُ

    And a life whose sweetness is anguish,

    And a lifetime whose clarity is clouded.

  5. أما يا ليل من صبح

    لمن سهروا فينتظر

    Is there, O night, no dawn

    For those who keep vigil to await?

  6. جفون الناس هاجعة

    وجفني ضافه السهر

    The people's eyelids sleep,

    And wakefulness has come as a guest to my eyelid.

  7. اذا سور تولت منك

    عني أقبلت سور

    If surges of you recede

    From me, other surges approach.

  8. أفانيها فتفنيني

    وأطويها فتنتشر

    I try to end them, but they end me;

    And I fold them up, but they spread out.

  9. وحيدا ًفيك ذا حذر

    يكاد يخونني الحذر

    Alone in you, full of caution,

    My caution almost betrays me.

  10. فلا كتب أسامرها

    أذا ما شاقني السمر

    So I have no books to converse with

    When I long for nighttime talk,

  11. ولا نظم ولا نثر

    وقد نظموا وقد نثروا

    Nor verse nor prose,

    Though they have composed verse and written prose.

  12. سأقضي العمر في أسر

    ويسعد بعد من أسروا

    I shall spend my lifetime in captivity,

    And afterward the captors will rejoice.

  13. أرى سيواس تغمدني

    كأني صارم ذكر

    I see Sivas sheathing me,

    As though I were a sharp sword of hard steel.

  14. صدأت بها وأحسبني

    سأصدأ ما جرى العمر

    I have rusted there, and I think I

    Shall rust as long as life runs on.

  15. أيخذلني وإخواني

    وينصر خصمنا القدر

    Will fate forsake me and my brothers

    And grant our enemy victory?

  16. فوا لهفي على سرب

    تولى رعيه النمر

    Alas for a herd

    Whose care the leopard has assumed!

  17. غدا في أرض مسغبة

    جفاها النبت والشجر

    It is now in a famine-stricken land

    That plants and trees have forsaken.

  18. قضى راعيه من زمن

    وضلت بعده العفر

    Its shepherd died long ago,

    And after him the tawny gazelles strayed.

  19. بقول أحبتي صبراً

    وهل في النار يصطبر

    With my loved ones saying, 'Patience!'—

    Yet can one endure patiently in the fire?

  20. عداة الحق قد ربحوا

    وأهل الحق قد خسروا

    The enemies of truth have won,

    And the people of truth have lost.

  21. ونحن أمامنا وطن

    نراه اليوم يحتضر

    And before us lies a homeland;

    We see it in its death throes today.

  22. فمن يجزع فمعذور

    ولكن قل من عذروا

    So whoever loses heart is excused,

    But few are those who offer pardon.

  23. فيا أفق ألتهب حزنا

    وجد بالدمع يا مطر

    So blaze with grief, O horizon,

    And be generous with tears, O rain!

  24. علام نلوم اعداء

    على شر إذا قدروا

    Why do we blame enemies

    For evil, when they have the power?

  25. بلوناهم لدن شبوا

    اننساهم إذا كبروا

    We have tried them since they were young;

    Shall we forget them when they grow old?

  26. نصحناهم فما انتصحوا

    زجرناهم فما ازدجروا

    We counseled them, but they took no counsel;

    We rebuked them, but they were not deterred.

  27. لقد صلدت قلوبهم

    كأن قلوبهم حجر

    Their hearts have indeed hardened,

    As though their hearts were stone.

  28. إذا أتمروا على كيد

    فإنا سوف نأتمر

    If they take counsel for a plot,

    Then we too shall take counsel.

  29. فمن نخشى وفوق العر

    ش مهما يغترر بشر

    Whom, then, should we fear, when upon the throne—

    However conceited he may be—is only a mortal?

  30. وفي الأيام متسع

    وفي الأقدار مدخر

    And in the days there is ample room,

    And destiny holds something in reserve,

  31. وفي الأجداث معتبر

    لو أن الناس تعتبر

    And in the graves there is a lesson,

    If only people would take heed.

  32. وهذا التاج منعفر

    غداً والقصر مندثر

    And this crown shall lie in the dust

    Tomorrow, and the palace shall be obliterated.

  33. رويداً إنها دول

    تدول وبعدها أخر

    Wait a little: these are turns of power;

    They pass, and others follow them.

  34. يظل الحق منهزماً

    زماناً ثم ينتصر

    Truth remains defeated

    For a time, then it triumphs.

  35. سيوف الله إن سلت

    فلا تبقي ولا تذر

    God's swords, if unsheathed,

    Spare nothing and leave nothing.