Sol 6.1

  1. أيها النفاث في العقدِ

    أنا مطويٌّ على الكمدِ

    O you who blow upon knots,

    I am wrapped in grief.

  2. إنما زخرفتَ لي خدعاً

    قدحت في الروح والجسدِ

    You merely gilded deceptions for me

    That gnawed at soul and body.

  3. هاتِ يا خداعُ واحدةً

    من كثيرٍ قلته وقدي

    Give me, deceiver, a single one

    Of the many things you said—and that is enough for me.

  4. ليت شعري بعد حلفك لي

    بوفاءِ العهد بعد غدِ

    Would that I knew, after you swore to me

    To keep your pledge the day after tomorrow,

  5. ما الذي باللَه صيرَهُ

    بعد قُربٍ في مدى الأبدِ

    What, by God, has placed it—

    Once so near—in the far reaches of eternity?

  6. ما لأنسٍ كان مبتذلاً

    منك لي بالأمس لم يعدِ

    Why has the intimacy once freely given

    By you to me yesterday not returned?

  7. إيه قل لي غير محتشمٍ

    هل دهاني فيك من أحدِ

    Go on, tell me without reserve:

    Has anyone wronged me where you are concerned?

  8. حبذا والكأس دائرةٌ

    لهونا والصيدُ بالطردِ

    How sweet, while the cup went round,

    Our revels, and the pursuit of game!

  9. وحديثٌ في القلوب له

    أخذٌ يصدعن في الكبدِ

    And talk that had, within our hearts,

    Spells that rent the liver.

  10. يوم تعطيني وتأخذها

    دون ندماني يداً بيدِ

    When you gave me the cup and took it back,

    Apart from my drinking companions, hand to hand.

  11. فإذا ألويت هيجني

    تلعٌ من ظبية البلدِ

    Then when you turned aside, I was stirred

    By the lofty neck of a gazelle of the land.

  12. واذا أصغيت ذكرني

    نشرُ كافورٍ على بردِ

    And when you leaned close, I was reminded

    By camphor's fragrance upon hailstones.

  13. ذاك يومٌ كان حاسدنا

    فيه معذوراً على الحسدِ

    That was a day when our envier

    Was excused for his envy.