Sol 6.1

  1. سَرَتْ وقد وَقَعَ السّاري لجانبه

    والشمسُ تَضْرِبُ دُهْمَ الليل بِالبَلَقِ

    She traveled by night, when the night traveler had fallen onto his side,

    and the sun streaked the blackness of night with white.

  2. بدرٌ لملتمسٍ غصنٌ لمعتنقٍ

    خمر لمغتبق مسك لمنتشقِ

    A full moon for the seeker, a bough for one who embraces;

    wine for the evening drinker, musk for one who inhales fragrance.

  3. كأنما الروضُ أهداها وشيّعَها

    فاستصحَبَت لمّةً من طربة العَبَق

    As though the garden had offered her as a gift and escorted her,

    so she took along a company of fragrance's revelers.

  4. وأقبلتْ تحسبُ الظلماءَ تَكْتُمُها

    وقد رَمَتْها نجومُ الليل بالحدق

    And she approached, thinking the darkness concealed her,

    though the stars of night had aimed their eyes at her.

  5. والصبحُ يَقْدَحُ في الظلماءِ نائرةً

    كأنها تفثةُ المَصْدورِ عنْ حَنَق

    And morning kindled a blaze in the darkness,

    as though it were spittle spat in rage by one with an ailing chest.

  6. والشرق يفهق والآفاقُ واردةٌ

    وأنجمُ الليل قد أَيقَنَّ بالغرق

    And the east brimmed over, while the horizons came to drink,

    and the stars of night were already certain they would drown.

  7. والفجر يُظْهِرُ فوقَ الليل آيَتَهُ

    وللشّمال عليه وقعةُ الصّعِقِ

    And dawn displayed its sign above the night,

    and the north wind fell upon it like one struck by lightning.

  8. تَتَوَّجَتْ بالدجى فالشّعْرُ من غَسَقٍ

    والخدُّ من شَفَقٍ والثغرُ منْ فلَقِ

    She crowned herself with darkness: her hair was of night's gloom,

    and her cheek of twilight's glow, and her mouth of daybreak.

  9. ألهو بمسكِ شَذاها لا أُحاولُ ما

    وراءَ ذاك ولو حَاوَلْتُ لم أُطق

    I delight in the musk of her fragrance; I do not seek what

    lies beyond that; even if I tried, I could not.

  10. فبتُّ أحسبُ إني قد طرقتُ بها

    روضاً شممتُ به طيباً ولم أذُق

    So I spent the night thinking that with her I had visited by night

    a garden where I smelled fragrance but tasted nothing.