أصاحبة الحسن المموه للأذى

أصاحبة الحسن المموه للأذى

أعارك إياه طبيب وصانعُ

أعارك إياه طبيب وصانعُ

O lady whose beauty is a disguise for harm,

The one with beauty that hides harm

A physician and a craftsman lent it to you.

A doctor and maker lent it to you

تجودين من مال المعنَّى عليهما

تجودين من مال المعنَّى عليهما

جزاءً إلى أن ضاع ما أنا جامعُ

جزاءً إلى أن ضاع ما أنا جامعُ

You give them both generously from the tormented lover’s wealth,

You give generously from the wealth of meaning to them

As recompense, until all I have gathered is gone.

As a reward until what I gather is lost

رويداً فقد أدركتِ سرَّكِ وانثنت

رويداً فقد أدركتِ سرَّكِ وانثنت

مثلمة تلك السيوف القواطعُ

مثلمة تلك السيوف القواطعُ

Easy now: you have discovered your secret, and they have recoiled—

Gently, for you have realized your secret and bent

Those keen-cutting swords, their edges blunted.

Like those sharp, cutting swords

ألا في عذولي فيك ممتلئاً رضاً

ألا في عذولي فيك ممتلئاً رضاً

وكم رد لي غضبان عندك شافعُ

وكم رد لي غضبان عندك شافعُ

Behold in my reproacher over you a man brimming with contentment,

Verily, in my abstinence from you I am full of contentment

And many an intercessor has returned to me angry from your presence.

And how often an angry one by you intercedes

تعودت آلام الجراحات تصلحي

تعودت آلام الجراحات تصلحي

ن جسمك حتى ما بجسمك جازعُ

ن جسمك حتى ما بجسمك جازعُ

You have grown used to the pains of wounds, mending

You are accustomed to the pains of wounds healing

Your body until no part of it flinches.

Your body until what is not in your body is harmful

فما آلمتك الساخرات بعتبها

فما آلمتك الساخرات بعتبها

عليك وتعيير العدى وهو لاذعُ

عليك وتعيير العدى وهو لاذعُ

So the mocking women have not hurt you with their reproaches

So the mockers did not hurt you with their reproach

Against you, nor your enemies’ taunting, stinging though it is.

Upon you and the enemies' hurtful blame

دعيني وغشِّي عين غيري وقلبه

دعيني وغشِّي عين غيري وقلبه

ففيك لعشاق الظواهر خادعُ

ففيك لعشاق الظواهر خادعُ

Leave me, and deceive another’s eye and heart;

Leave me be and cover another’s eye and heart

For something in you deceives lovers of appearances.

For in you there is a deceiver of lovers of appearances