Sol 6.1

  1. منْ لِعَانٍ هوَاكِ يصْرَعُهُ

    حِينَ يَغْشاهُ مِنْكِ مَا يَغْشى

    Who will aid a captive whom love for you strikes down,

    When what comes from you overwhelms him?

  2. رابِطِ الجَأْشِ فِي الْخطُوبِ فإِنْ

    تَعْرِضيِ ليْسَ رَابِطاً جَأْشا

    Steadfast of heart amid calamities—yet if

    You appear, his heart is steadfast no more.

  3. يَا مَهَاةً فِي الْعَيْنِ أَنْشَأَها

    بَهْجَةً لِلْعُيُونِ مَنْ أَنْشَا

    O oryx to the eye, fashioned

    As a delight for eyes by the one who fashioned her.

  4. إِنَّ بِي لوْعةً مبَرِّحَةً

    سِرُّهَا ما حَيِيْتُ لنْ يُفْشى

    Indeed, an excruciating anguish is within me;

    Its secret, while I live, will not be divulged,

  5. غَيْرَ دَمْعٍ إِذا جَرى فَنَحَا

    نحْوَ قلْبِي حَسِسْتُهُ نَشَّا

    Save through tears that, when they flow and turn

    Toward my heart, I feel them sizzle.

  6. قُبْلةٌ مِنْكِ مُنْتهى أَمَلِي

    لا ومنْ كُلّ عَابِدٍ يَخْشى

    A kiss from you is my utmost hope.

    No! By Him whom every worshipper fears,

  7. مِئَةٌ بَلْ قَلِيلَةٌ مِئَةٌ

    كرِهَ اللّهُ قائِلاً غِشَّا

    A hundred—no, a hundred are too few!

    God abhors one who speaks deceitfully.

  8. أَلفُ أَلْفٍ وَلَسْتُ أَحْسَبُهَا

    آخِرَ الدَّهْرِ تُبْرِدُ الأَحْشَا

    A thousand thousand—and I do not think they

    Would cool my inward parts, even at time's end.

  9. إِنْ يَقولُوا فُحشٌ فَلَسْت أَرَى

    أَنَّ فِي صَادِقِ الْهَوَى فحْشا

    If they say, 'Obscenity!' I do not see

    Any obscenity in sincere love.

  10. لَمْ أَنمْ لَيْلتِي ولَمْ أَرَ لِي

    راحَةً أَوْ أُفَارِقَ الْفَرْشَا

    I did not sleep that night, nor did I find

    Any rest unless I left my bed.

  11. فَالْتَمَسْتُ الْخَلاَءَ أَخْبِطُ فِي

    سُحْرةٍ عَادَ طَيْرُهَا أَعْشَى

    So I sought open country, stumbling through

    A predawn hour whose birds had grown dim-sighted,

  12. إِذْ أَرَّقَ الدُّجَى عُبُوسَتَهُ

    وإِذِ الفجرُ هَمَّ أَوْ بَشَّا

    When darkness kept its frown awake,

    And when dawn was about to smile—or smiled.

  13. أَبْتَغِي وَحْشَةَ الأَنِيسِ وَمَا

    أُنْكِرُ الْقَفْرَ آنَسَ الْوَحْشَا

    Seeking solitude away from company; nor do I

    Reject the wilderness that comforted wild beasts,

  14. مُمْعِناً فِي الْفَرَارِ مِنْ أَلَمٍ

    مُسْتَبِيحٍ جَوَانِحِي نَهْشا

    Pressing on in flight from a pain

    That ravaged my ribs with its gnawing.

  15. فَإِذا روْضةٌ تَكَشَّفُ لِي

    عَنْ مُحيّاً إِلَيَّ قَد هَشَّا

    And suddenly a garden unveiled to me

    A face that smiled toward me in welcome.

  16. هبَّ غِرِّيدُهَا يَجُولُ بِهَا

    دَائِبَ السَّعْي بَانِياً عُشَّا

    Its songbirds stirred, flitting through it,

    Tirelessly at work, each building a nest.

  17. مِنْهُ فِي الأَيكِ نَاظِمٌ لَبِقٌ

    كرَّ شدْواً وَسَاجِعٌ أَنْشَا

    Among them in the grove, a deft verse-maker

    Resumed its song, and a rhymester began.

  18. سَرْحُهَا قدْ زَكَا وَسُنْدُسُهَا

    أَبْدَعَ الْوَشْيَ فِيه منْ وَشَّى

    Its trees had flourished, and upon its fine silk

    The embroiderer had wrought exquisite patterns.

  19. بَرَعَتْ تحْلِيَاتُهَا صُوَراً

    وَزَهَتْ تَحْشِيَاتُهَا نَقْشَا

    Its adornments were exquisite in form,

    And its borders glowed with designs.

  20. رَوْضَةٌ زُرْتهَا وَفِيَّ جَوىً

    كاللَّظَى فِي الْهَشِيمِ أَوْ أَمْشَى

    A garden I visited, with anguish within me

    Like flame in dry brush—or quicker to spread.

  21. خِلْتُ فِيهَا لِيَ الشفَاءَ فمَا

    عُدْتُ إِلاَّ وَالدَّاءُ بِي أَفْشى

    I thought there was healing for me there, but

    I returned only with sickness spread further through me.

  22. كَيفَ حَالِي وَفِي دَمِي لهَب

    إِذْ أَرَى نَبْتَهَا وَقَدْ رُشَّا

    How do I fare, with a flame in my blood,

    When I see its plants already sprinkled with water?

  23. فَبِعَيْنِي حَديقَةٌ روِيَتْ

    وَبِقَلْبِي حشاشَةٌ عَطْشى

    So in my eye is a well-watered garden,

    And in my heart, a thirsty remnant of life.