لا ترض للحظ غضه

لا ترض للحظ غضه

والمح من النور غضه

والمح من النور غضه

Do not consent to lowering your gaze,

Don't let a blink scorn your gaze

and glimpse the blossoms' fresh growth.

Or dim the light in your sight

خد الربيع تبدى

خد الربيع تبدى

فصل بلحظك عضه

فصل بلحظك عضه

Spring's cheek has revealed itself;

Take spring as it dawns

so couple your gaze with biting it.

Make its season yours in a blink

شقائق شق قلبي

شقائق شق قلبي

رواؤها واقتضه

رواؤها واقتضه

Anemones—my heart was cleft

Poppies ripped open my heart

and deflowered by their beauty.

Quench it, appease it

كأنما الارض منها

كأنما الارض منها

خريدة مفتضه

خريدة مفتضه

As though the earth, through them,

The earth seems to bloom from them

were a maiden deflowered.

An open book, unfolded

ونرجس متغاض

ونرجس متغاض

كأنما الحزن مضه

كأنما الحزن مضه

And a narcissus, half-closing its eyes,

And narcissus partly closed

as though sorrow had pained it,

As if sorrow left it

يرنو بطرف كحيل

يرنو بطرف كحيل

كمن يحاول غمضه

كمن يحاول غمضه

gazes with a kohl-dark eye,

Batting its kohl-lined eye

like one trying to close it.

Like one trying to shut it

وسوسن ان تشمه

وسوسن ان تشمه

فكالوذائل بضه

فكالوذائل بضه

And a lily, if you smell it,

Inhale the lily's scent

is smooth and fair as silver plates,

Like braids undone, unplaited

أو السن الدر صيغت

أو السن الدر صيغت

او الطلا المبيضه

او الطلا المبيضه

or tongues fashioned from pearls,

Carnations like pearls forged

or whitened necks.

Or silver well burnished

والاقحوان نجوم

والاقحوان نجوم

ليست ترى منقضه

ليست ترى منقضه

And chrysanthemums are stars,

Colocynths like stars

not seen falling.

You won't see them fall

كانت ختاماً عليه

كانت ختاماً عليه

منه كمائم غضه

منه كمائم غضه

A seal had rested upon them:

Capping them off

their own tender bud-sheaths.

Like sealed scrolls

فحاول الجو رفضا

فحاول الجو رفضا

بفضة الطل فضه

بفضة الطل فضه

Then the sky sought, by sprinkling,

The breeze tried to shake them free

to break that seal with dew's silver.

With the moon's silver flash

لم يضحك الروض الا

لم يضحك الروض الا

دموعه المرفضه

دموعه المرفضه

Nothing made the garden laugh

The garden smiled only

but its streaming tears.

With tears it had rejected

مازال يولي فيولي

مازال يولي فيولي

من كل ود محضه

من كل ود محضه

It kept giving, and receiving in turn,

Still it sways to and fro

the pure essence of every affection,

From every loving friend

حتى اذا الورد حيى

حتى اذا الورد حيى

وعارض المسك عرضه

وعارض المسك عرضه

until, when the rose offered greeting,

Until roses came alive

and its fragrance rivaled musk,

And musk spread its aroma

ابدى غلائل حمرا

ابدى غلائل حمرا

ازارها منفضه

ازارها منفضه

it revealed red tunics

It showed crimson braids

whose waist-wrap was of silver.

Their belts unfastened

كأنما المزن جيش

كأنما المزن جيش

يحاول الافق عرضه

يحاول الافق عرضه

As though the rainclouds were an army

As if the clouds were an army

that the horizon seeks to muster.

Spreading across the horizon

كأنما البرق فيه

كأنما البرق فيه

على اجتدالك حضه

على اجتدالك حضه

As though the lightning within it

As if lightning in them

urged it to grapple with you.

Urged by your return

كأنما الرعد قصفا

كأنما الرعد قصفا

بكم يهدد ومضه

بكم يهدد ومضه

As though the thunder, crashing,

As if thunder a bombardment

threatened its flash with you.

Threatening in its rumble

كأنما الريح تبغي

كأنما الريح تبغي

لبعض شأوك نهضه

لبعض شأوك نهضه

As though the wind were seeking

As if the wind wanted

to rise to some measure of your stature.

To rouse some thorns for you

كأنما البحر عاف

كأنما البحر عاف

اليك قد شد غرضه

اليك قد شد غرضه

As though the sea were a supplicant

As if the sea surged up

who had tightened his saddle-girth to come to you,

To meet you in yearning

ومد بالنهر كفا

ومد بالنهر كفا

لكي تعجل قرضه

لكي تعجل قرضه

and stretched out a hand through the river,

And the river stretched out its palm

so that you might hasten his loan.

To hasten your taking