Sol 6.1

  1. أمقَلِّداً جيدي بِعقدِ نِظامهْ

    وَمَشنِّفاً سَمعي بَدُرِّ كَلامهْ

    O one adorning my neck with the necklace of his verse,

    And decking my hearing with the pearls of his words,

  2. وَمُنزِهاً طَرفي بِرَونَقِ حبرِهِ

    لَما تَجلَّى النُورُ ضِمنَ ظَلامِهْ

    And delighting my gaze with the lustre of his ink,

    When light shone forth within its darkness,

  3. وَمنبِّهاً فكري بِحُسنِ قَريضهِ

    وَأَنا المطاش بسحره وَمَدامِهْ

    And awakening my mind with the beauty of his poetry,

    While I am made dizzy by his magic and his wine—

  4. أَفدي الهِلال الكامِل النُور الَّذي

    في صَدرِ غرَّتهِ وَفى بِتمامِهْ

    I would ransom the crescent, full of light, who

    At the outset of his appearance had attained fullness.

  5. أَهدى إليَّ عَروسَ نَظمٍ قَد جَلت

    وَجهاً رَأَيتُ الحسنَ تحتَ لِثامِهْ

    He gave me a bride of verse, who unveiled

    A face beneath whose veil I saw beauty.

  6. عَربيةٌ نَزَلَت عَليَّ فهيَّجت

    في الحَيِّ صَبوةَ شَيخِهِ وَغُلامِهْ

    An Arab maiden came to me and stirred

    In the clan, the youthful longing of its elder and its youth.

  7. بَثَت مِن الأَشواقِ ما لَم يُعدِنِي

    مِما لَقَد شَعَرَت بَحرِّ ضَرامِهْ

    She poured forth longings that had not infected me,

    Of those whose blazing heat she had indeed felt.

  8. شَوقٌ عَلى الذِكرى يَهِيجُ فَيَنثَني

    قَلبي رَهينَ هُيامه وَسقامِهْ

    Longing surges at remembrance; then bends

    My heart, captive to its passion and its sickness.

  9. هَذا كِتابُ مُتَيَّمٍ أَلقى بِهِ

    نيرانَ صَبوتِهِ وَبَردَ سَلامِهْ

    This is a love-stricken man's letter; through it he has sent

    The fires of his longing and the coolness of his greeting.

  10. طُوِيَتْ عَلى قَلبي صَفائحُ طِرسِهِ

    وَسَوادُ عَيني كانَ مسكَ خِتامِهْ

    The sheets of his manuscript were folded around my heart,

    And the black of my eye was the musk of its seal.