Sol 6.1

  1. على الصبِّ قد ضاقت لعمري مذاهبه

    وبان عزاه حين بانت حبائبه

    By my life, the lovesick lover's paths have grown narrow.

    And his solace departed when his beloveds departed.

  2. وما هجعت منه العيون ولم يكن

    يسامره في الليل إلا كواكبه

    And his eyes did not sleep, and none

    Kept him company at night except its stars.

  3. فواعجباً نيران شوقي تسعرت

    ولم يطفها من دمع عيني سحائبه

    What a wonder! The fires of my longing blazed up,

    And the clouds of tears from my eye did not quench them.

  4. فهل يا ترى أحظى ولو بعض ساعة

    به وعلى طول التجافي أعاتبه

    Might I, I wonder, be granted even part of an hour

    With him, and reproach him for his long estrangement?

  5. ولا صبر لي فيه على كل حادث

    يشيب له من كل طفلٍ ذوائبه

    And I have no patience, where he is concerned, for any calamity

    At which every child's locks turn gray.

  6. هنيئاً لمن لم يدر ما لوعة النوى

    ولا سهمها بين البرية صائبه

    Fortunate is he who has not known the anguish of separation,

    Nor been struck by its arrow among humankind.

  7. وطوبى لصب لم يصب دموعه

    لبعد حبيب قد تناءت ركائبه

    And blessed is a lovesick lover who has not poured out his tears

    For the absence of a beloved whose riding camels have gone far away.

  8. وقد عجت في ربع له عنه سائلاً

    وصوتي به غير الصدى لا يجاوبه

    And I turned aside at a dwelling of his, asking after him,

    And there nothing but the echo answers my voice.

  9. وقفت على ربع لمية ناقتي

    فما زلت أبكي عنده وأخاطبه

    I halted my she-camel at Mayya's dwelling.

    So I kept weeping beside it and addressing it,

  10. وأسقيه حتى كاد مما أبثه

    تكلمني أحجاره وملاعبه

    And I watered it until what I confided to it almost made

    Its stones and places of play speak to me.