يا ذَرَويّاً كان في حبّهِ

يا ذَرَويّاً كان في حبّهِ

جسميَ في الرقّةِ كالذّرِّ

جسميَ في الرقّةِ كالذّرِّ

O Dharawi, for love of whom

O you who was tender in his love

my body was as delicate as fine dust.

My body became delicate like a speck of dust

أقْصَدْتَني بالهُجْر من بعد ما

أقْصَدْتَني بالهُجْر من بعد ما

أقصدْتَني من قبلُ بالهجْرِ

أقصدْتَني من قبلُ بالهجْرِ

You struck me dead with abuse after

You shunned me after you had

you had earlier struck me dead with estrangement.

Shunned me before with estrangement

وخفتُ أن ينطِقَ ثغري بما

وخفتُ أن ينطِقَ ثغري بما

يُبيحُ آثارَ حِمى الثّغِر

يُبيحُ آثارَ حِمى الثّغِر

And I feared my mouth might speak words that

And I feared my lips would reveal

would lay bare the vestiges of the frontier's sanctuary.

What would disclose traces of the fever of my lips

كنْ آمناً فالدهرُ قد شُفِّعَتْ

كنْ آمناً فالدهرُ قد شُفِّعَتْ

أحداثُه فيكَ مَدى الدهرِ

أحداثُه فيكَ مَدى الدهرِ

Be safe, for time's intercessors have already been accepted—

Be at ease, for time has interceded

its calamities, on your behalf for all time.

Its events in you for ages

هيهاتَ أن أبلغَ بالشِعْرِ ما

هيهاتَ أن أبلغَ بالشِعْرِ ما

قد بلغَتْ منك يدُ الشِعْرِ

قد بلغَتْ منك يدُ الشِعْرِ

I could never accomplish through verse what

Alas! That I express in poetry what

the hand of poetry has already done to you.

The hand of poetry has expressed of you