Sol 6.1

  1. هَذِي العُيُونُ سَوَادُهُنَّ صَفَاءُ

    كَمْ حَارَ فِي غَمَزَاتِهَا الشُّعَرَاءُ

    These eyes—their blackness is clarity.

    How often poets have been bewildered by her winks!

  2. فَهُيَامُهُمْ سِرٌّ خَفِيٌّ مُقْلِقٌ

    فِي ظِلِّهِ تَتَكَحَّلُ الشَّهْلَاءُ

    So their passion is a hidden, unsettling secret,

    In its shade, the gray-eyed woman applies kohl to her eyes.

  3. وَتَزَاحَمَتْ جُمَلُ الْبَيَانِ لِوَصْفِهَا

    فَإِذَا لِسِحْرِ رُمُوشِهَا إِغْرَاءُ

    And eloquent phrases crowded together to describe her,

    Then behold: there is allure in the spell of her lashes.

  4. إِنْ تَلْتَفِتْ صَرَعَتْ حَلِيمًا رَاشِدًا

    مِنْ نَظْرَتِيهَا يَنْصِتُ الإِصْغَاءُ

    If she turns, she fells a forbearing, prudent man;

    At her two glances, listening itself listens in silence.

  5. رِمْشٌ غَزَا الأَضْلَاعَ وَخْزُ حَرِيرِهِ

    لِيَحِلَّ فِي جَنَبَاتِهَا الإِعْيَاءُ

    An eyelash—the sting of its silk invaded the ribs,

    So that weariness might settle in their recesses.

  6. مَا بَيْنَ جَفْنَيْكِ الْقُلُوبُ تَأَوَّهَتْ

    وَبِسَهْمِ لَحْظِكِ يُصْرَعُ العُظَمَاءُ

    Between your eyelids, hearts have groaned,

    And the mighty are felled by the arrow of your glance.

  7. فَكَأَنَّمَا الأَهْدَابُ سَيْفٌ مُشْرَعٌ

    وَالقَلْبُ أُضْحِيَةٌ لَهَا وَفِدَاءُ

    So it is as though the eyelashes were an unsheathed sword,

    And the heart a sacrificial offering to them, and a ransom.

  8. سُودٌ كَأَنَّ اللَّيْلَ غَاضَ بِمَائِهَا

    وَتَدَثَّرَتْ بِسَوَادِهَا الظُّلْمَاءُ

    Black, as though night had sunk into their waters,

    And darkness had wrapped itself in their blackness.