Sol 6.1

  1. عدل الحبيب فمن يجورُ

    ودنا فأين بنا يسيرُ

    The beloved is just—who, then, will be unjust?

    And he has drawn near—where will he take us?

  2. عوضت من عيس تدو

    ر بي الفلا كأس تدور

    I was given, instead of white camels roaming

    the wastes with me, a cup that goes round.

  3. وشربت ما وسع الصغي

    ر وزدت ما حمل الكبير

    And I drank what the small cup held,

    and added what the large one bore.

  4. نبهت ندماني وقد

    عبرت بنا الشعرى العبور

    I roused my drinking companions, when

    Sirius, the Crossing Star, had passed over us.

  5. والبدر في أفق السما

    ء كروضة فيها غدير

    The full moon on the sky's horizon

    was like a meadow with a pool within.

  6. هبوا فقد عيي الرقي

    ب ونام وانتبه السرور

    Arise! The watcher has grown weary

    and slept, while joy has awakened.

  7. وأشار إبليس فقل

    نا كلنا نعم المشير

    And Iblis gave counsel; then

    we all said, 'How excellent a counselor!'

  8. صرعى بمعركة تع

    ف الوحش عنها والنسور

    Fallen upon a battlefield that

    wild beasts and vultures shun.

  9. نوار روضتنا خدو

    د والغصون بها خصور

    Our meadow's blossoms are cheeks,

    and its branches are waists.

  10. والعيش أستر ما يكو

    ن إذا تهتكت الستور

    And life is most closely veiled

    when the veils are torn away.

  11. هبوا الى شرب المدا

    م فإنما الدنيا غرور

    Arise to drink the wine,

    for this world is only delusion.

  12. طاف السقاة بها كما

    أهدت الصيد الصقور

    The cupbearers carried it round, as

    falcons bring their quarry.

  13. عذراء يكتمها المزا

    ج كأنها فيه ضمير

    A virgin, concealed by the mixing water,

    as though she were a hidden thought within it.

  14. وتظن تحت حبابها

    خداً تقبله ثغور

    And beneath her bubbles you might imagine

    a cheek kissed by mouths.

  15. حتى سجدنا والإما

    م أمامنا بم وزير

    Until we bowed in worship, with our imam

    before us: the bass string and the treble.

  16. وإذا صحونا فاللسا

    ن العذب والفكر الغزير

    And when we sober, our speech is

    sweet, our thought abundant.

  17. نفتض معنى أو يولد

    بيننا مثل وزير

    We deflower a meaning, or there is born

    among us the like of a vizier;

  18. أو يمدح الملك الجلي

    ل السيد الفرد الخطير

    or the majestic king is praised,

    the peerless lord of lofty rank.

  19. ما عزه شيء بغا

    ه فكيف أعوزه النظير

    Nothing he sought ever proved beyond him—

    how, then, has a peer eluded him?

  20. وغداة أنس بشرت

    ك بها المعازف والخمور

    And on a morning of delight, heralded

    to you by music and wine,

  21. إذ ماء ورد غيثنا

    والارض تربتها عبير

    when rosewater was our rain

    and the earth's soil was perfume,

  22. تغري بصب الماء يا

    ملكاً أنامله بحور

    you urged the pouring of water, O

    king whose fingertips are seas.

  23. ويقول سيبك هكذا

    صبت على العافى البدور

    And your bounty says: 'Thus

    were money-purses poured upon the suppliant.'

  24. ويقول سيفك هكذا

    تحرى إذا غضب النحور

    And your sword says: 'Thus

    it seeks out throats when angered.'

  25. هيهات تبتسم الثغو

    ر ولم تسد بك الثغور

    How could mouths have smiled

    had the frontiers not been secured through you?

  26. قد أذعنت أرض العد

    و وجاء بالنصر البشير

    The enemy's land has submitted,

    and the herald has come with victory.

  27. هذي الأماني لي عبي

    د والسرور معي اجير

    These wishes are my slaves,

    and joy is a hireling in my service.

  28. لاقيته فغضضت طر

    فى إذ بدا القمر المنير

    I met him and lowered my gaze

    when the radiant moon appeared.

  29. وجررت اذيالي بمج

    له وقلت فمن جرير

    And I trailed my hems in his presence,

    and said, 'Who, then, is Jarir?'

  30. وكأن عاماً عشته

    في ظلة يوم قصير

    And it was as though a year I lived

    in sheltering shade were a brief day.