وقفت مع العشاق في كل موقفٍ

وقفت مع العشاق في كل موقفٍ

بوصل خيط الدمع بعد انسجامه

بوصل خيط الدمع بعد انسجامه

I stood with the lovers at every station,

I stood with the lovers at every stand

Keeping the thread of tears unbroken after they began to flow.

Connecting the thread of tears after its harmony

فلم أر إلا جائداً بحياته

فلم أر إلا جائداً بحياته

على باخلٍ فر طيفه بمنامه

على باخلٍ فر طيفه بمنامه

And I saw only one who lavished his life

Yet I saw none but one who lost his life

On a miser whose phantom fled with his sleep.

To an unrequiting love that fled his dream

سقاني على عينيه كأس رضابه

سقاني على عينيه كأس رضابه

فأسكرني أضعاف سكر مدامه

فأسكرني أضعاف سكر مدامه

Beneath his gaze, he gave me a cup of his sweet saliva,

He poured into my eyes the wine of his wounds

And made me many times drunker than his wine would.

Intoxicating me beyond the drunkenness of wine

يعللني بالوصل طيف خياله

يعللني بالوصل طيف خياله

ويطربني في الأيك نوح حمامه

ويطربني في الأيك نوح حمامه

The phantom of his image gives me hope of union,

His phantom of union justifies me

And his doves' lament in the groves enraptures me.

And his dove's moan enchants me in agony

ومن عجبٍ أن يحدث البعد بيننا

ومن عجبٍ أن يحدث البعد بيننا

سلواً وطرف الشوق مني حرامه

سلواً وطرف الشوق مني حرامه

And it is a wonder that distance between us should bring

How strange that distance comes between us

Forgetfulness, though my eye is longing's sacred precinct.

While the eye of longing is unlawful from me

وأحسست من قلبي بداراً إلى الهوى

وأحسست من قلبي بداراً إلى الهوى

فقلت له كن منهما في ذمامه

فقلت له كن منهما في ذمامه

And I sensed my heart rushing toward passion,

And I felt a house in my heart for passion

So I told it, 'Be in his protection against them both.'

I said to it, be among them in its haze

وما كنت أدري أن خمار طرفه

وما كنت أدري أن خمار طرفه

يروق لي ما خلف در لثامه

يروق لي ما خلف در لثامه

And I did not know that the drunken languor of his gaze

I did not know that the tip of his intoxication

Would make what lies behind his veil's pearls delightful to me.

Would please me beyond the veil of his mouth

هبوه أعار الشمس ضوء جبينه

هبوه أعار الشمس ضوء جبينه

فمن أين للخطي حسن قوامه

فمن أين للخطي حسن قوامه

Grant that he lent the sun the radiance of his brow;

He lent the sun the light of his forehead

Then where did the Khatti spear get the beauty of his stature?

So how could the lines have a shapely figure?

وإن أنتم أنكرتم أن قده

وإن أنتم أنكرتم أن قده

تقلد من عينيه مثل حسامه

تقلد من عينيه مثل حسامه

And if you deny that his form

And if you denied that his stature

Has girded on, from his eyes, the likeness of his sword,

Bore a sword from his eyes like a scabbard

فلا تنكروه إن حلية جيده

فلا تنكروه إن حلية جيده

مفصلةٌ من ثغره وكلامه

مفصلةٌ من ثغره وكلامه

Then do not deny it: the ornament of his neck

Then do not deny it, for the adornment of his neck

Is fashioned from his mouth and his speech.

Was crafted from his mouth and his words

كأن العيون النجل قاسمنه الهوى

كأن العيون النجل قاسمنه الهوى

لأن عليها مسحةً من سقامه

لأن عليها مسحةً من سقامه

As though the wide eyes had shared passion with him,

As if eyes sharing love divided him

For they bear a trace of his lovesickness.

For upon them was a touch of his sickness

فتىً لم تزل أمواله وعداته

فتىً لم تزل أمواله وعداته

على خطرٍ من بذله وانتقامه

على خطرٍ من بذله وانتقامه

A youth whose wealth and foes have always

A youth whose wealth and vengeance

Been at risk from his generosity and his vengeance.

Were in constant danger of his generosity and revenge

ولو خاف من يسري إلى ظل مجده

ولو خاف من يسري إلى ظل مجده

ضلالاً لناداه الندى من أمامه

ضلالاً لناداه الندى من أمامه

And if one traveling by night to the shade of his glory feared

And if one who strays to the shade of his glory

Losing his way, generosity would call to him from ahead.

Feared misguidance, the dew would call him from before him

ولم أكسه در المديح وإنما

ولم أكسه در المديح وإنما

أعرت نجوم الليل بدر تمامه

أعرت نجوم الليل بدر تمامه

And I did not clothe him in the pearls of praise; rather,

I did not adorn him with the jewels of praise, but rather

I lent the stars of night the full moon of his perfection.

I presented the stars of night with the fullness of his moon