أتركيني بوحدتي و عنائي

أتركيني بوحدتي و عنائي

و اهربي من تأوّهي و بكائي

و اهربي من تأوّهي و بكائي

Leave me to my solitude and my suffering,

Leave me to my solitude and troubles

Leave me to my solitude and my suffering,

and flee from my groaning and my weeping.

And flee from my sighs and weeping

And flee from my sighing and my weeping.

أنت عذراء . و النعيم و صفو الحبّ

أنت عذراء . و النعيم و صفو الحبّ

حقّ المليحة العذراء

حقّ المليحة العذراء

You are a virgin; bliss and the purity of love

You are chaste. And pleasure and purity of love

You are a maiden. And bliss and the purity of love

are the lovely virgin's right.

Are the right of the beautiful and chaste

Are the right of the beautiful maiden.

ما بقلبي غير الجراح و هل يرضيك

ما بقلبي غير الجراح و هل يرضيك

مأوى مدنّس بالدّماء

مأوى مدنّس بالدّماء

My heart holds nothing but wounds; would you be pleased with

There is nothing in my heart but wounds, would it please you

My heart holds nothing but wounds, and would it please you

a refuge defiled with blood?

A dwelling contaminated with blood

To have a refuge defiled with blood?

إن هذا الورى بيوت قصيد

إن هذا الورى بيوت قصيد

أنا فيها يا ميّ بيت الرثاء

أنا فيها يا ميّ بيت الرثاء

Indeed, these people are verses of a poem;

In this world there are homes for elegies

Indeed, this mankind is but verses of poetry,

I am among them, O Mayy, the verse of lamentation.

I am in them, O Mayya, the house of lament

And in them, O May, I am the verse of elegy.

لست أهواك فازدريني و الخائن

لست أهواك فازدريني و الخائن

أهل للهجر و الازدراء

أهل للهجر و الازدراء

I do not love you, so despise me; and the traitor

I don't love you so spurn me, and the traitor

I do not love you, so despise me, for the traitor

deserves abandonment and contempt.

Deserves abandonment and scorn

Is worthy of abandonment and scorn.

كذبة تسعدين فيها و أشقى

كذبة تسعدين فيها و أشقى

أنا في كذبتي من الشهداء

أنا في كذبتي من الشهداء

A lie in which you are happy and I am wretched;

A lie that makes you happy while I, in my lie,

A lie in which you find happiness while I suffer—

in my lie, I am one of the martyrs.

Am among the martyrs

I am, in my lie, among the martyrs.

قد يخطّ القضاء سطرا و في

قد يخطّ القضاء سطرا و في

تضحية المرء محو خط القضاء

تضحية المرء محو خط القضاء

Fate may write a line, and in

Fate may inscribe a line, and in

Fate may write a line, and in

one's sacrifice lies the erasure of fate's script.

The sacrifice of a person, erase fate's line

A man's sacrifice is the erasure of the line of fate.

يا دوائي من الأسى أنا أجللتك

يا دوائي من الأسى أنا أجللتك

عن قرحة الأذى يا دوائي

عن قرحة الأذى يا دوائي

O my remedy for sorrow, I have held you above

O my remedy for sorrow, I exalted you

O my cure from sorrow, I have exalted you

the sore of suffering, O my remedy.

From the wound of harm, O my remedy

Above the wound of harm, O my cure.

باسم و الهموم تحفر دمعي

باسم و الهموم تحفر دمعي

أنا في الابتسام عين المرائي

أنا في الابتسام عين المرائي

I smile, while cares dig out my tears;

In the name of passions that carve my tears

Smiling, while sorrows carve my tears,

in smiling, I am the very image of a hypocrite.

I, in smiling, am the eye of the watcher

In my smile, I am the very essence of the hypocrite.

و الكآبات ألف نوع و ما

و الكآبات ألف نوع و ما

يقتل الكآبة الخرساء

يقتل الكآبة الخرساء

And melancholy has a thousand forms, and what

And sorrows are a thousand kinds, and

And melancholies are of a thousand kinds, but what kills

kills is mute melancholy.

The silent sorrow does not kill

Is the silent melancholy.