Sol 6.1

  1. أيكيَّةٌ صدحتْ شَجْواً على فَنَنٍ

    فأشعلتْ ما خبا من نارِ أشجاني

    A woodland dove sang mournfully on a branch,

    and rekindled the fire of my sorrows that had died down.

  2. ناحتْ وما فقدت إِلفاً ولا فُجِعَتْ

    فذكّرتنيَ أوطاري وأوطاني

    She lamented, though she had lost no mate nor been bereaved,

    and reminded me of my longings and my homelands.

  3. طليقةٌ من إِسارِ الهمِّ ناعمةٌ

    أضحتْ تجددُ وجدَ الموثَقِ العاني

    Free from sorrow's bonds, living at ease,

    she now renews the anguish of the fettered captive.

  4. تشَّبهتْ بيَ في وجدي وفي طربي

    هيهاتَ ما نحنُ في الحالينِ سِيانِ

    She mimicked me in my anguish and my rapture;

    far from it! We are not alike in either state.

  5. ما في حَشاها ولا في جَفْنِهَا أثرٌ

    من نارِ قلبي ولا من ماءِ أجفاني

    There is no trace in her breast or on her eyelid

    of my heart's fire or the water of my eyelids.

  6. يا ربَّةَ البانةِ الغنَّاءِ تحضنُها

    خضراءُ تلتفُّ أغصاناً بأغصانِ

    O mistress of the lush bān-tree, cradled

    by a green tree, branch entwining with branch:

  7. إِنْ كان نَوْحُكِ إسعاداً لمغتربٍ

    ناءٍ عن الأهلِ ممنوٍّ بهجرانِ

    if your lament is meant to console an exile,

    far from his family, afflicted with separation,

  8. فقارضيني إِذا ما اعتادني طَرَبٌ

    وجداً بوجدٍ وسُلواناً بسلوانِ

    then answer me in kind whenever rapture returns to me:

    anguish for anguish, and solace for solace.

  9. أو لا فَقَصْرَكِ حتى أستعينَ بمنْ

    يَعْنِيهِ شاني ويأسُو كَلْمَ أحزاني

    Otherwise, desist until I seek help from one

    who cares about my plight and heals the wound of my sorrows.

  10. ما أنتِ مني ولا يعنيكِ ما أخذتْ

    مني الهمومُ وما تدرينَ ما شاني

    You are not of my kind, nor do you care what has been taken

    from me by sorrows; nor do you know my plight.

  11. كِلي إِلى الغيمِ إِسعادي فإِنّ لهُ

    دمعاً كدمعي وإِرناناً كإِرناني

    Leave my consolation to the cloud, for it has

    tears like my tears and wailing like my wailing.