قم يا غلامُ فهاتها

قم يا غلامُ فهاتها

حمراءَ فالتفاحُ أحمر

حمراءَ فالتفاحُ أحمر

Rise, boy, and bring it,

Rise, my boy, and bring it to me

Red—for the apple is red;

Red, for the apple is red

قانٍ كخدّكَ بين ريَ

قانٍ كخدّكَ بين ريَ

حانٍ كعارضِكَ المسطَّر

حانٍ كعارضِكَ المسطَّر

Crimson as your cheek, amid sweet

As red as your cheek amidst the meadows

basil, like your neatly traced sideburn.

As smooth as your sculpted brow

فكأنّها والمزجُ يُلب

فكأنّها والمزجُ يُلب

بسُ رأسَها إكليلَ جوهر

بسُ رأسَها إكليلَ جوهر

So it is as though, while dilution clothes

As though it were, with its blend, a bud

its head in a circlet of jewels,

Crowning its head with a bejeweled wreath

بَدرُ الدُّجى صاغت له ال

بَدرُ الدُّجى صاغت له ال

أفلاكُ نجمَ الجوِّ مِغفَر

أفلاكُ نجمَ الجوِّ مِغفَر

it were the full moon of darkness, for which the

The full moon of nightfall molded it

celestial spheres fashioned the sky’s stars into a mail helmet.

The spheres formed the absolving star’s gem

وكأنَّ كفَّ مُديرِها

وكأنَّ كفَّ مُديرِها

من لونِي القاني مُعصَفرَ

من لونِي القاني مُعصَفرَ

And as though the hand of the one passing it around

As though the palm of its turner

were safflower-dyed by my crimson hue.

Were, from my red wine's hue, saffronized