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قِفَا نَبْكِ مِنْ ذِكْرَى حَبِيبٍ ومَنْزِل
بِسِقْطِ اللِّوَى بَيْنَ الدَّخُولِ فَحَوْمَلِ
فَتُوْضِحَ فَالمِقْراةِ لَمْ يَعْفُ رَسْمُها
لِمَا نَسَجَتْهَا مِنْ جَنُوبٍ وشَمْألِ
تَرَى بَعَرَ الأرْآمِ فِي عَرَصَاتِهَـا
وَقِيْعَـانِهَا كَأنَّهُ حَبُّ فُلْفُــلِ
كَأنِّي غَدَاةَ البَيْنِ يَوْمَ تَحَمَّلُـوا
لَدَى سَمُرَاتِ الحَيِّ نَاقِفُ حَنْظَلِ
وُقُوْفاً بِهَا صَحْبِي عَلَّي مَطِيَّهُـمُ
يَقُوْلُوْنَ لاَ تَهْلِكْ أَسَىً وَتَجَمَّـلِ
وإِنَّ شِفـَائِي عَبْـرَةٌ مُهْرَاقَـةٌ
فَهَلْ عِنْدَ رَسْمٍ دَارِسٍ مِنْ مُعَوَّلِ
كَدَأْبِكَ مِنْ أُمِّ الحُوَيْرِثِ قَبْلَهَـا
وَجَـارَتِهَا أُمِّ الرَّبَابِ بِمَأْسَـلِ
إِذَا قَامَتَا تَضَوَّعَ المِسْكُ مِنْهُمَـا
نَسِيْمَ الصَّبَا جَاءَتْ بِرَيَّا القَرَنْفُلِ
فَفَاضَتْ دُمُوْعُ العَيْنِ مِنِّي صَبَابَةً
عَلَى النَّحْرِ حَتَّى بَلَّ دَمْعِي مِحْمَلِي
ألاَ رُبَّ يَوْمٍ لَكَ مِنْهُنَّ صَالِـحٍ
وَلاَ سِيَّمَا يَوْمٍ بِدَارَةِ جُلْجُـلِ
ويَوْمَ عَقَرْتُ لِلْعَذَارَي مَطِيَّتِـي
فَيَا عَجَباً مِنْ كُوْرِهَا المُتَحَمَّـلِ
فَظَلَّ العَذَارَى يَرْتَمِيْنَ بِلَحْمِهَـا
وشَحْمٍ كَهُدَّابِ الدِّمَقْسِ المُفَتَّـلِ
ويَوْمَ دَخَلْتُ الخِدْرَ خِدْرَ عُنَيْـزَةٍ
فَقَالَتْ لَكَ الوَيْلاَتُ إنَّكَ مُرْجِلِي
تَقُولُ وقَدْ مَالَ الغَبِيْطُ بِنَا مَعـاً
عَقَرْتَ بَعِيْرِي يَا امْرأَ القَيْسِ فَانْزِلِ
فَقُلْتُ لَهَا سِيْرِي وأَرْخِي زِمَامَـهُ
ولاَ تُبْعـِدِيْنِي مِنْ جَنَاكِ المُعَلَّـلِ
فَمِثْلِكِ حُبْلَى قَدْ طَرَقْتُ ومُرْضِـعٍ
فَأَلْهَيْتُهَـا عَنْ ذِي تَمَائِمَ مُحْـوِلِ
إِذَا مَا بَكَى مِنْ خَلْفِهَا انْصَرَفَتْ لَهُ
بِشَـقٍّ وتَحْتِي شِقُّهَا لَمْ يُحَـوَّلِ
ويَوْماً عَلَى ظَهْرِ الكَثِيْبِ تَعَـذَّرَتْ
عَلَـيَّ وَآلَـتْ حَلْفَةً لم تَحَلَّـلِ
أفاطِـمَ مَهْلاً بَعْضَ هَذَا التَّدَلُّـلِ
وإِنْ كُنْتِ قَدْ أزْمَعْتِ صَرْمِي فَأَجْمِلِي
أغَـرَّكِ مِنِّـي أنَّ حُبَّـكِ قَاتِلِـي
وأنَّـكِ مَهْمَا تَأْمُرِي القَلْبَ يَفْعَـلِ
وإِنْ تَكُ قَدْ سَـاءَتْكِ مِنِّي خَلِيقَـةٌ
فَسُلِّـي ثِيَـابِي مِنْ ثِيَابِكِ تَنْسُـلِ
وَمَا ذَرَفَـتْ عَيْنَاكِ إلاَّ لِتَضْرِبِـي
بِسَهْمَيْكِ فِي أعْشَارِ قَلْبٍ مُقَتَّـلِ
وبَيْضَـةِ خِدْرٍ لاَ يُرَامُ خِبَاؤُهَـا
تَمَتَّعْتُ مِنْ لَهْوٍ بِهَا غَيْرَ مُعْجَـلِ
تَجَاوَزْتُ أحْرَاساً إِلَيْهَا وَمَعْشَـراً
عَلَّي حِرَاصاً لَوْ يُسِرُّوْنَ مَقْتَلِـي
إِذَا مَا الثُّرَيَّا فِي السَّمَاءِ تَعَرَّضَتْ
تَعَـرُّضَ أَثْنَاءَ الوِشَاحِ المُفَصَّـلِ
فَجِئْتُ وَقَدْ نَضَّتْ لِنَوْمٍ ثِيَابَهَـا
لَـدَى السِّتْرِ إلاَّ لِبْسَةَ المُتَفَضِّـلِ
فَقَالـَتْ : يَمِيْنَ اللهِ مَا لَكَ حِيْلَةٌ
وَمَا إِنْ أَرَى عَنْكَ الغَوَايَةَ تَنْجَلِـي
خَرَجْتُ بِهَا أَمْشِي تَجُرُّ وَرَاءَنَـا
عَلَـى أَثَرَيْنا ذَيْلَ مِرْطٍ مُرَحَّـلِ
فَلَمَّا أجَزْنَا سَاحَةَ الحَيِّ وانْتَحَـى
بِنَا بَطْنُ خَبْتٍ ذِي حِقَافٍ عَقَنْقَلِ
هَصَرْتُ بِفَوْدَي رَأْسِهَا فَتَمَايَلَـتْ
عَليَّ هَضِيْمَ الكَشْحِ رَيَّا المُخَلْخَـلِ
مُهَفْهَفَـةٌ بَيْضَـاءُ غَيْرُ مُفَاضَــةٍ
تَرَائِبُهَـا مَصْقُولَةٌ كَالسَّجَنْجَــلِ
كَبِكْرِ المُقَـانَاةِ البَيَاضَ بِصُفْــرَةٍ
غَـذَاهَا نَمِيْرُ المَاءِ غَيْرُ المُحَلَّــلِ
تَـصُدُّ وتُبْدِي عَنْ أسِيْلٍ وَتَتَّقــِي
بِـنَاظِرَةٍ مِنْ وَحْشِ وَجْرَةَ مُطْفِـلِ
وجِـيْدٍ كَجِيْدِ الرِّئْمِ لَيْسَ بِفَاحِـشٍ
إِذَا هِـيَ نَصَّتْـهُ وَلاَ بِمُعَطَّــلِ
وفَـرْعٍ يَزِيْنُ المَتْنَ أسْوَدَ فَاحِــمٍ
أثِيْـثٍ كَقِـنْوِ النَّخْلَةِ المُتَعَثْكِــلِ
غَـدَائِرُهُ مُسْتَشْزِرَاتٌ إلَى العُــلاَ
تَضِلُّ العِقَاصُ فِي مُثَنَّى وَمُرْسَــلِ
وكَشْحٍ لَطِيفٍ كَالجَدِيْلِ مُخَصَّــرٍ
وسَـاقٍ كَأُنْبُوبِ السَّقِيِّ المُذَلَّــلِ
وتُضْحِي فَتِيْتُ المِسْكِ فَوْقَ فِراشِهَـا
نَئُوْمُ الضَّحَى لَمْ تَنْتَطِقْ عَنْ تَفَضُّـلِ
وتَعْطُـو بِرَخْصٍ غَيْرَ شَثْنٍ كَأَنَّــهُ
أَسَارِيْعُ ظَبْيٍ أَوْ مَسَاويْكُ إِسْحِـلِ
تُضِـيءُ الظَّلامَ بِالعِشَاءِ كَأَنَّهَــا
مَنَـارَةُ مُمْسَى رَاهِـبٍ مُتَبَتِّــلِ
إِلَى مِثْلِهَـا يَرْنُو الحَلِيْمُ صَبَابَــةً
إِذَا مَا اسْبَكَرَّتْ بَيْنَ دِرْعٍ ومِجْـوَلِ
تَسَلَّتْ عَمَايَاتُ الرِّجَالِ عَنْ الصِّبَـا
ولَيْـسَ فُؤَادِي عَنْ هَوَاكِ بِمُنْسَـلِ
ألاَّ رُبَّ خَصْمٍ فِيْكِ أَلْوَى رَدَدْتُـهُ
نَصِيْـحٍ عَلَى تَعْذَالِهِ غَيْرِ مُؤْتَــلِ
ولَيْلٍ كَمَوْجِ البَحْرِ أَرْخَى سُدُوْلَــهُ
عَلَيَّ بِأَنْـوَاعِ الهُـمُوْمِ لِيَبْتَلِــي
فَقُلْـتُ لَهُ لَمَّا تَمَطَّـى بِصُلْبِــهِ
وأَرْدَفَ أَعْجَـازاً وَنَاءَ بِكَلْكَــلِ
ألاَ أَيُّهَا اللَّيْلُ الطَّوِيْلُ ألاَ انْجَلِــي
بِصُبْحٍ وَمَا الإصْبَاحُ منِكَ بِأَمْثَــلِ
فَيَــا لَكَ مَنْ لَيْلٍ كَأنَّ نُجُومَـهُ
بِـأَمْرَاسِ كَتَّانٍ إِلَى صُمِّ جَنْــدَلِ
وقِـرْبَةِ أَقْـوَامٍ جَعَلْتُ عِصَامَهَــا
عَلَى كَاهِـلٍ مِنِّي ذَلُوْلٍ مُرَحَّــلِ
وَوَادٍ كَجَـوْفِ العَيْرِ قَفْرٍ قَطَعْتُــهُ
بِـهِ الذِّئْبُ يَعْوِي كَالخَلِيْعِ المُعَيَّــلِ
فَقُلْـتُ لَهُ لَمَّا عَوَى : إِنَّ شَأْنَنَــا
قَلِيْلُ الغِنَى إِنْ كُنْتَ لَمَّا تَمَــوَّلِ
كِــلاَنَا إِذَا مَا نَالَ شَيْئَـاً أَفَاتَـهُ
ومَنْ يَحْتَرِثْ حَرْثِي وحَرْثَكَ يَهْـزَلِ
وَقَـدْ أغْتَدِي والطَّيْرُ فِي وُكُنَاتِهَـا
بِمُنْجَـرِدٍ قَيْـدِ الأَوَابِدِ هَيْكَــلِ
مِكَـرٍّ مِفَـرٍّ مُقْبِلٍ مُدْبِـرٍ مَعــاً
كَجُلْمُوْدِ صَخْرٍ حَطَّهُ السَّيْلُ مِنْ عَلِ
كَمَيْتٍ يَزِلُّ اللَّبْـدُ عَنْ حَالِ مَتْنِـهِ
كَمَا زَلَّـتِ الصَّفْـوَاءُ بِالمُتَنَـزَّلِ
عَلَى الذَّبْلِ جَيَّاشٍ كأنَّ اهْتِـزَامَهُ
إِذَا جَاشَ فِيْهِ حَمْيُهُ غَلْيُ مِرْجَـلِ
مَسْحٍ إِذَا مَا السَّابِحَاتُ عَلَى الوَنَى
أَثَرْنَ الغُبَـارَ بِالكَـدِيْدِ المُرَكَّـلِ
يُزِلُّ الغُـلاَمُ الخِفَّ عَنْ صَهَـوَاتِهِ
وَيُلْوِي بِأَثْوَابِ العَنِيْـفِ المُثَقَّـلِ
دَرِيْرٍ كَخُـذْرُوفِ الوَلِيْـدِ أمَرَّهُ
تَتَابُعُ كَفَّيْـهِ بِخَيْـطٍ مُوَصَّـلِ
لَهُ أيْطَـلا ظَبْـيٍ وَسَاقَا نَعَـامَةٍ
وإِرْخَاءُ سَرْحَانٍ وَتَقْرِيْبُ تَتْفُـلِ
ضَلِيْعٍ إِذَا اسْتَـدْبَرْتَهُ سَدَّ فَرْجَـهُ
بِضَافٍ فُوَيْقَ الأَرْضِ لَيْسَ بِأَعْزَلِ
كَأَنَّ عَلَى المَتْنَيْنِ مِنْهُ إِذَا انْتَحَـى
مَدَاكَ عَرُوسٍ أَوْ صَلايَةَ حَنْظَـلِ
كَأَنَّ دِمَاءَ الهَـادِيَاتِ بِنَحْـرِهِ
عُصَارَةُ حِنَّاءٍ بِشَيْـبٍ مُرَجَّـلِ
فَعَـنَّ لَنَا سِـرْبٌ كَأَنَّ نِعَاجَـهُ
عَـذَارَى دَوَارٍ فِي مُلاءٍ مُذَبَّـلِ
فَأَدْبَرْنَ كَالجِزْعِ المُفَصَّـلِ بَيْنَـهُ
بِجِيْدٍ مُعَمٍّ فِي العَشِيْرَةِ مُخْـوَلِ
فَأَلْحَقَنَـا بِالهَـادِيَاتِ ودُوْنَـهُ
جَوَاحِـرُهَا فِي صَرَّةٍ لَمْ تُزَيَّـلِ
فَعَـادَى عِدَاءً بَيْنَ ثَوْرٍ ونَعْجَـةٍ
دِرَاكاً وَلَمْ يَنْضَحْ بِمَاءٍ فَيُغْسَـلِ
فَظَلَّ طُهَاةُ اللَّحْمِ مِن بَيْنِ مُنْضِجٍ
صَفِيـفَ شِوَاءٍ أَوْ قَدِيْرٍ مُعَجَّـلِ
ورُحْنَا يَكَادُ الطَّرْفُ يَقْصُرُ دُوْنَـهُ
مَتَى تَـرَقَّ العَيْـنُ فِيْهِ تَسَفَّـلِ
فَبَـاتَ عَلَيْـهِ سَرْجُهُ ولِجَامُـهُ
وَبَاتَ بِعَيْنِـي قَائِماً غَيْرَ مُرْسَـلِ
أصَاحِ تَرَى بَرْقاً أُرِيْكَ وَمِيْضَـهُ
كَلَمْـعِ اليَدَيْنِ فِي حَبِيٍّ مُكَلَّـلِ
يُضِيءُ سَنَاهُ أَوْ مَصَابِيْحُ رَاهِـبٍ
أَمَالَ السَّلِيْـطَ بِالذُّبَالِ المُفَتَّـلِ
قَعَدْتُ لَهُ وصُحْبَتِي بَيْنَ ضَـارِجٍ
وبَيْنَ العـُذَيْبِ بُعْدَمَا مُتَأَمَّـلِ
عَلَى قَطَنٍ بِالشَّيْمِ أَيْمَنُ صَوْبِـهِ
وَأَيْسَـرُهُ عَلَى السِّتَارِ فَيَذْبُـلِ
فَأَضْحَى يَسُحُّ المَاءَ حَوْلَ كُتَيْفَةٍ
يَكُبُّ عَلَى الأذْقَانِ دَوْحَ الكَنَهْبَلِ
ومَـرَّ عَلَى القَنَـانِ مِنْ نَفَيَانِـهِ
فَأَنْزَلَ مِنْهُ العُصْمَ مِنْ كُلِّ مَنْـزِلِ
وتَيْمَاءَ لَمْ يَتْرُكْ بِهَا جِذْعَ نَخْلَـةٍ
وَلاَ أُطُمـاً إِلاَّ مَشِيْداً بِجِنْـدَلِ
كَأَنَّ ثَبِيْـراً فِي عَرَانِيْـنِ وَبْلِـهِ
كَبِيْـرُ أُنَاسٍ فِي بِجَـادٍ مُزَمَّـلِ
كَأَنَّ ذُرَى رَأْسِ المُجَيْمِرِ غُـدْوَةً
مِنَ السَّيْلِ وَالأَغثَاءِ فَلْكَةُ مِغْـزَلِ
وأَلْقَى بِصَحْـرَاءِ الغَبيْطِ بَعَاعَـهُ
نُزُوْلَ اليَمَانِي ذِي العِيَابِ المُحَمَّلِ
كَأَنَّ مَكَـاكِيَّ الجِـوَاءِ غُدَّبَـةً
صُبِحْنَ سُلافاً مِنْ رَحيقٍ مُفَلْفَـلِ
كَأَنَّ السِّبَـاعَ فِيْهِ غَرْقَى عَشِيَّـةً
بِأَرْجَائِهِ القُصْوَى أَنَابِيْشُ عُنْصُـلِ



Stop, oh my friends, let us pause to weep over the remembrance of my beloved.
Here was her abode on the edge of the sandy desert between Dakhool and Howmal.
The traces of her encampment are not wholly obliterated even now.
For when the South wind blows the sand over them the North wind sweeps it away.
The courtyards and enclosures of the old home have become desolate;
The dung of the wild deer lies there thick as the seeds of pepper.
On the morning of our separation it was as if I stood in the gardens of our tribe,
Amid the acacia-shrubs where my eyes were blinded with tears by the smart from the bursting pods of colocynth.
As I lament thus in the place made desolate, my friends stop their camels;
They cry to me "Do not die of grief; bear this sorrow patiently."
Nay, the cure of my sorrow must come from gushing tears.
Yet, is there any hope that this desolation can bring me solace?
So before ever I met Unaizah, did I mourn for two others;
My fate had been the same with Ummul-Huwairith and her neighbor Ummul-Rahab in Masal.
Fair were they also, diffusing the odor of musk as they moved,
Like the soft zephyr bringing with it the scent of the clove.
Thus the tears flowed down on my breast, remembering days of love;
The tears wetted even my sword-belt, so tender was my love.
Behold how many pleasant days have I spent with fair women;
Especially do I remember the day at the pool of Darat-i-Juljul.2
On that day I killed my riding camel for food for the maidens:
How merry was their dividing my camel's trappings to be carried on their camels.
It is a wonder, a riddle, that the camel being saddled was yet unsaddled!
A wonder also was the slaughterer, so heedless of self in his costly gift!
Then the maidens commenced throwing the camel's flesh into the kettle;
The fat was woven with the lean like loose fringes of white twisted silk.
On that day I entered the howdah, the camel's howdah of Unaizah!
And she protested, saying, "Woe to you, you will force me to travel on foot."
She repulsed me, while the howdah was swaying with us;
She said, "You are galling my camel, Oh Imru-ul-Quais, so dismount."
Then I said, "Drive him on! Let his reins go loose, while you turn to me.
Think not of the camel and our weight on him. Let us be happy.
"Many a beautiful woman like you, Oh Unaizah, have I visited at night;
I have won her thought to me, even from her children have I won her."
There was another day when I walked with her behind the sandhills,
But she put aside my entreaties and swore an oath of virginity.
Oh, Unaizah, gently, put aside some of this coquetry.
If you have, indeed, made up your mind to cut off friendship with me, then do it kindly or gently.
Has anything deceived you about me, that your love is killing me,
And that verily as often as you order my heart, it will do what you order?
And if any one of my habits has caused you annoyance,
Then put away my heart from your heart, and it will be put away.
And your two eyes do not flow with tears, except to strike me with arrows in my broken heart.
Many a fair one, whose tent can not be sought by others, have I enjoyed playing with.
I passed by the sentries on watch near her, and a people desirous of killing me;
If they could conceal my murder, being unable to assail me openly.
I passed by these people at a time, when the Pleiades appeared in the heavens,
As the appearance of the gems in the spaces in the ornamented girdle, set with pearls and gems.
Then she said to me, "I swear by God, you have no excuse for your wild life;
I can not expect that your erring habits will ever be removed from your nature."
I went out with her; she walking, and drawing behind us, over our footmarks,
The skirts of an embroidered woolen garment, to erase the footprints.
Then when we had crossed the enclosure of the tribe,
The middle of the open plain, with its sandy undulations and sandhills, we sought.
I drew the tow side-locks of her head toward me; and she leant toward me;
She was slender of waist, and full in the ankle.
Thin-waisted, white-skinned, slender of body,
Her breast shining polished like a mirror.
In complexion she is like the first egg of the ostrich—white, mixed with yellow.
Pure water, unsullied by the descent of many people in it, has nourished her.
She turns away, and shows her smooth cheek, forbidding with a glancing eye,
Like that of a wild animal, with young, in the desert of Wajrah.
And she shows a neck like the neck of a white deer;
It is neither disproportionate when she raises it, nor unornamented.
And a perfect head of hair which, when loosened, adorns her back
Black, very dark-colored, thick like a date-cluster on a heavily-laden date-tree.
Her curls creep upward to the top of her head;
And the plaits are lost in the twisted hair, and the hair falling loose.
And she meets me with a slender waist, thin as the twisted leathern nose-rein of a camel.
Her form is like the stem of a palm-tree bending over from the weight of its fruit.
In the morning, when she wakes, the particles of musk are lying over her bed.
She sleeps much in the morning; she does not need to gird her waist with a working dress.
She gives with thin fingers, not thick, as if they were the worms of the desert of Zabi,
In the evening she brightens the darkness, as if she were the light-tower of a monk.
Toward one like her, the wise man gazes incessantly, lovingly
She is well proportioned in height between the wearer of a long dress and of a short frock.
The follies of men cease with youth, but my heart does not cease to love you.
Many bitter counselors have warned me of the disaster of your love, but I turned away from them.
Many a night has let down its curtains around me amid deep grief,
It has whelmed me as a wave of the sea to try me with sorrow.
Then I said to the night, as slowly his huge bulk passed over me,
As his breast, his loins, his buttocks weighed on me and then passed afar,
"Oh long night, dawn will come, but will be no brighter without my love.
You are a wonder, with stars held up as by ropes of hemp to a solid rock."
At other times, I have filled a leather water-bag of my people and entered the desert,
And trod its empty wastes while the wolf howled like a gambler whose family starves.
I said to the wolf, "You gather as little wealth, as little prosperity as I.
What either of us gains he gives away. So do we remain thin."
Early in the morning, while the birds were still nesting, I mounted my steed.
Well-bred was he, long-bodied, outstripping the wild beasts in speed,
Swift to attack, to flee, to turn, yet firm as a rock swept down by the torrent,
Bay-colored, and so smooth the saddle slips from him, as the rain from a smooth stone,
Thin but full of life, fire boils within him like the snorting of a boiling kettle;
He continues at full gallop when other horses are dragging their feet in the dust for weariness.
A boy would be blown from his back, and even the strong rider loses his garments.
Fast is my steed as a top when a child has spun it well.
He has the flanks of a buck, the legs of an ostrich, and the gallop of a wolf.
From behind, his thick tail hides the space between his thighs, and almost sweeps the ground.
When he stands before the house, his back looks like the huge grinding-stone there.
The blood of many leaders of herds is in him, thick as the juice of henna in combed white hair.
As I rode him we saw a flock of wild sheep, the ewes like maidens in long-trailing robes;
They turned for flight, but already he had passed the leaders before they could scatter.
He outran a bull and a cow and killed them both, and they were made ready for cooking;
Yet he did not even sweat so as to need washing.
We returned at evening, and the eye could scarcely realize his beauty
For, when gazing at one part, the eye was drawn away by the perfection of another part.
He stood all night with his saddle and bridle on him,
He stood all night while I gazed at him admiring, and did not rest in his stable.
But come, my friends, as we stand here mourning, do you see the lightning?
See its glittering, like the flash of two moving hands, amid the thick gathering clouds.
Its glory shines like the lamps of a monk when he has dipped their wicks thick in oil.
I sat down with my companions and watched the lightning and the coming storm.
So wide-spread was the rain that its right end seemed over Quatan,
Yet we could see its left end pouring down on Satar, and beyond that over Yazbul.
So mighty was the storm that it hurled upon their faces the huge kanahbul trees,
The spray of it drove the wild goats down from the hills of Quanan.
In the gardens of Taimaa not a date-tree was left standing,
Nor a building, except those strengthened with heavy stones.
The mountain, at the first downpour of the rain, looked like a giant of our people draped in a striped cloak.
The peak of Mujaimir in the flood and rush of débris looked like a whirling spindle.
The clouds poured forth their gift on the desert of Ghabeet, till it blossomed
As though a Yemani merchant were spreading out all the rich clothes from his trunks,
As though the little birds of the valley of Jiwaa awakened in the morning
And burst forth in song after a morning draught of old, pure, spiced wine.
As though all the wild beasts had been covered with sand and mud, like the onion's root-bulbs.
They were drowned and lost in the depths of the desert at evening.



Footnotes
1. This is supposed to be the oldest of the "hanged" poems. Like the others it shifts abruptly from theme to theme, and is full of poetic comparisons. Indeed, its author is said to have started this fashion, winning for himself the name of "The creator of images."
2. The poet in this and the following lines refers to an incident which is thus told us: during his wooing of Unaizah he followed her and the other maidens when they rode on camels to the pool Darat-i-Juljul. he lavishly slew his camel so they could have it immediately for food. When they had eaten, they would not leave him stranded in the desert, so divided the trappings of his camel, each carrying home a part upon her beast, while the carrying of the poet himself fell to Unaizah. She jestingly protested that the howdah on her camel's back was too small for them both.
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Default Suspended poem of Zuhair bin abi Salma

معلقة زهير بن أبي سُلمى




أَمِنْ أُمِّ أَوْفَى دِمْنَـةٌ لَمْ تَكَلَّـمِ
بِحَـوْمَانَةِ الـدُّرَّاجِ فَالمُتَثَلَّـمِ
وَدَارٌ لَهَـا بِالرَّقْمَتَيْـنِ كَأَنَّهَـا
مَرَاجِيْعُ وَشْمٍ فِي نَوَاشِرِ مِعْصَـمِ
بِهَا العِيْنُ وَالأَرْآمُ يَمْشِينَ خِلْفَـةً
وَأَطْلاؤُهَا يَنْهَضْنَ مِنْ كُلِّ مَجْثَمِ
وَقَفْتُ بِهَا مِنْ بَعْدِ عِشْرِينَ حِجَّةً
فَـلأيَاً عَرَفْتُ الدَّارَ بَعْدَ تَوَهُّـمِ
أَثَـافِيَ سُفْعاً فِي مُعَرَّسِ مِرْجَـلِ
وَنُـؤْياً كَجِذْمِ الحَوْضِ لَمْ يَتَثَلَّـمِ
فَلَـمَّا عَرَفْتُ الدَّارَ قُلْتُ لِرَبْعِهَـا
أَلاَ أَنْعِمْ صَبَاحاً أَيُّهَا الرَّبْعُ وَاسْلَـمِ
تَبَصَّرْ خَلِيْلِي هَلْ تَرَى مِنْ ظَعَائِـنٍ
تَحَمَّلْـنَ بِالْعَلْيَاءِ مِنْ فَوْقِ جُرْثُـمِ
جَعَلْـنَ القَنَانَ عَنْ يَمِينٍ وَحَزْنَـهُ
وَكَـمْ بِالقَنَانِ مِنْ مُحِلٍّ وَمُحْـرِمِ
عَلَـوْنَ بِأَنْمَـاطٍ عِتَاقٍ وكِلَّـةٍ
وِرَادٍ حَوَاشِيْهَـا مُشَاكِهَةُ الـدَّمِ
وَوَرَّكْنَ فِي السُّوبَانِ يَعْلُوْنَ مَتْنَـهُ
عَلَيْهِـنَّ دَلُّ النَّـاعِمِ المُتَنَعِّــمِ
بَكَرْنَ بُكُورًا وَاسْتَحْرَنَ بِسُحْـرَةٍ
فَهُـنَّ وَوَادِي الرَّسِّ كَالْيَدِ لِلْفَـمِ
وَفِيْهـِنَّ مَلْهَـىً لِلَّطِيْفِ وَمَنْظَـرٌ
أَنِيْـقٌ لِعَيْـنِ النَّـاظِرِ المُتَوَسِّـمِ
كَأَنَّ فُتَاتَ العِهْنِ فِي كُلِّ مَنْـزِلٍ
نَـزَلْنَ بِهِ حَبُّ الفَنَا لَمْ يُحَطَّـمِ
فَـلَمَّا وَرَدْنَ المَاءَ زُرْقاً جِمَامُـهُ
وَضَعْـنَ عِصِيَّ الحَاضِرِ المُتَخَيِّـمِ
ظَهَرْنَ مِنْ السُّوْبَانِ ثُمَّ جَزَعْنَـهُ
عَلَى كُلِّ قَيْنِـيٍّ قَشِيْبٍ وَمُفْـأَمِ
فَأَقْسَمْتُ بِالْبَيْتِ الذِّي طَافَ حَوْلَهُ
رِجَـالٌ بَنَوْهُ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَجُرْهُـمِ
يَمِينـاً لَنِعْمَ السَّـيِّدَانِ وُجِدْتُمَـا
عَلَى كُلِّ حَالٍ مِنْ سَحِيْلٍ وَمُبْـرَمِ
تَدَارَكْتُـمَا عَبْسًا وَذُبْيَانَ بَعْدَمَـا
تَفَـانَوْا وَدَقُّوا بَيْنَهُمْ عِطْرَ مَنْشَـمِ
وَقَدْ قُلْتُمَا إِنْ نُدْرِكِ السِّلْمَ وَاسِعـاً
بِمَالٍ وَمَعْرُوفٍ مِنَ القَوْلِ نَسْلَـمِ
فَأَصْبَحْتُمَا مِنْهَا عَلَى خَيْرِ مَوْطِـنٍ
بَعِيـدَيْنِ فِيْهَا مِنْ عُقُوقٍ وَمَأْثَـمِ
عَظِيمَيْـنِ فِي عُلْيَا مَعَدٍّ هُدِيْتُمَـا
وَمَنْ يَسْتَبِحْ كَنْزاً مِنَ المَجْدِ يَعْظُـمِ
تُعَفِّـى الكُلُومُ بِالمِئينَ فَأَصْبَحَـتْ
يُنَجِّمُهَـا مَنْ لَيْسَ فِيْهَا بِمُجْـرِمِ
يُنَجِّمُهَـا قَـوْمٌ لِقَـوْمٍ غَرَامَـةً
وَلَـمْ يَهَرِيقُوا بَيْنَهُمْ مِلْءَ مِحْجَـمِ
فَأَصْبَحَ يَجْرِي فِيْهِمُ مِنْ تِلاَدِكُـمْ
مَغَـانِمُ شَتَّـى مِنْ إِفَـالٍ مُزَنَّـمِ
أَلاَ أَبْلِـغِ الأَحْلاَفَ عَنِّى رِسَالَـةً
وَذُبْيَـانَ هَلْ أَقْسَمْتُمُ كُلَّ مُقْسَـمِ
فَـلاَ تَكْتُمُنَّ اللهَ مَا فِي نُفُوسِكُـمْ
لِيَخْفَـى وَمَهْمَـا يُكْتَمِ اللهُ يَعْلَـمِ
يُؤَخَّـرْ فَيُوضَعْ فِي كِتَابٍ فَيُدَّخَـرْ
لِيَـوْمِ الحِسَـابِ أَوْ يُعَجَّلْ فَيُنْقَـمِ
وَمَا الحَـرْبُ إِلاَّ مَا عَلِمْتُمْ وَذُقْتُـمُ
وَمَا هُـوَ عَنْهَا بِالحَـدِيثِ المُرَجَّـمِ
مَتَـى تَبْعَـثُوهَا تَبْعَـثُوهَا ذَمِيْمَـةً
وَتَضْـرَ إِذَا ضَرَّيْتُمُـوهَا فَتَضْـرَمِ
فَتَعْـرُكُكُمْ عَرْكَ الرَّحَى بِثِفَالِهَـا
وَتَلْقَـحْ كِشَـافاً ثُمَّ تُنْتَجْ فَتُتْئِـمِ
فَتُنْتِـجْ لَكُمْ غِلْمَانَ أَشْأَمَ كُلُّهُـمْ
كَأَحْمَـرِ عَادٍ ثُمَّ تُرْضِـعْ فَتَفْطِـمِ
فَتُغْـلِلْ لَكُمْ مَا لاَ تُغِـلُّ لأَهْلِهَـا
قُـرَىً بِالْعِـرَاقِ مِنْ قَفِيْزٍ وَدِرْهَـمِ
لَعَمْـرِي لَنِعْمَ الحَـيِّ جَرَّ عَلَيْهِـمُ
بِمَا لاَ يُؤَاتِيْهِم حُصَيْنُ بْنُ ضَمْضَـمِ
وَكَانَ طَوَى كَشْحاً عَلَى مُسْتَكِنَّـةٍ
فَـلاَ هُـوَ أَبْـدَاهَا وَلَمْ يَتَقَـدَّمِ
وَقَـالَ سَأَقْضِي حَاجَتِي ثُمَّ أَتَّقِـي
عَـدُوِّي بِأَلْفٍ مِنْ وَرَائِيَ مُلْجَـمِ
فَشَـدَّ فَلَمْ يُفْـزِعْ بُيُـوتاً كَثِيـرَةً
لَدَى حَيْثُ أَلْقَتْ رَحْلَهَا أُمُّ قَشْعَـمِ
لَدَى أَسَدٍ شَاكِي السِلاحِ مُقَـذَّفٍ
لَـهُ لِبَـدٌ أَظْفَـارُهُ لَـمْ تُقَلَّــمِ
جَـريءٍ مَتَى يُظْلَمْ يُعَاقَبْ بِظُلْمِـهِ
سَرِيْعـاً وَإِلاَّ يُبْدِ بِالظُّلْـمِ يَظْلِـمِ
دَعَـوْا ظِمْئهُمْ حَتَى إِذَا تَمَّ أَوْرَدُوا
غِمَـاراً تَفَرَّى بِالسِّـلاحِ وَبِالـدَّمِ
فَقَضَّـوْا مَنَايَا بَيْنَهُمْ ثُمَّ أَصْـدَرُوا
إِلَـى كَلَـأٍ مُسْتَـوْبَلٍ مُتَوَخِّـمِ
لَعَمْرُكَ مَا جَرَّتْ عَلَيْهِمْ رِمَاحُهُـمْ
دَمَ ابْـنِ نَهِيْـكٍ أَوْ قَتِيْـلِ المُثَلَّـمِ
وَلاَ شَارَكَتْ فِي المَوْتِ فِي دَمِ نَوْفَلٍ
وَلاَ وَهَـبٍ مِنْهَـا وَلا ابْنِ المُخَـزَّمِ
فَكُـلاً أَرَاهُمْ أَصْبَحُـوا يَعْقِلُونَـهُ
صَحِيْحَـاتِ مَالٍ طَالِعَاتٍ بِمَخْـرِمِ
لِحَـيِّ حَلالٍ يَعْصِمُ النَّاسَ أَمْرَهُـمْ
إِذَا طَـرَقَتْ إِحْدَى اللَّيَالِي بِمُعْظَـمِ
كِـرَامٍ فَلاَ ذُو الضِّغْنِ يُدْرِكُ تَبْلَـهُ
وَلا الجَـارِمُ الجَانِي عَلَيْهِمْ بِمُسْلَـمِ
سَئِمْـتُ تَكَالِيْفَ الحَيَاةِ وَمَنْ يَعِـشُ
ثَمَانِيـنَ حَـوْلاً لا أَبَا لَكَ يَسْـأَمِ
وأَعْلـَمُ مَا فِي الْيَوْمِ وَالأَمْسِ قَبْلَـهُ
وَلكِنَّنِـي عَنْ عِلْمِ مَا فِي غَدٍ عَـمِ
رَأَيْتُ المَنَايَا خَبْطَ عَشْوَاءَ مَنْ تُصِبْ
تُمِـتْهُ وَمَنْ تُخْطِىء يُعَمَّـرْ فَيَهْـرَمِ
وَمَنْ لَمْ يُصَـانِعْ فِي أُمُـورٍ كَثِيـرَةٍ
يُضَـرَّسْ بِأَنْيَـابٍ وَيُوْطَأ بِمَنْسِـمِ
وَمَنْ يَجْعَلِ المَعْروفَ مِنْ دُونِ عِرْضِهِ
يَفِـرْهُ وَمَنْ لا يَتَّقِ الشَّتْـمَ يُشْتَـمِ
وَمَنْ يَكُ ذَا فَضْـلٍ فَيَبْخَلْ بِفَضْلِـهِ
عَلَى قَوْمِهِ يُسْتَغْـنَ عَنْـهُ وَيُذْمَـمِ
وَمَنْ يُوْفِ لا يُذْمَمْ وَمَنْ يُهْدَ قَلْبُـهُ
إِلَـى مُطْمَئِـنِّ البِرِّ لا يَتَجَمْجَـمِ
وَمَنْ هَابَ أَسْـبَابَ المَنَايَا يَنَلْنَـهُ
وَإِنْ يَرْقَ أَسْـبَابَ السَّمَاءِ بِسُلَّـمِ
وَمَنْ يَجْعَلِ المَعْرُوفَ فِي غَيْرِ أَهْلِـهِ
يَكُـنْ حَمْـدُهُ ذَماً عَلَيْهِ وَيَنْـدَمِ
وَمَنْ يَعْصِ أَطْـرَافَ الزُّجَاجِ فَإِنَّـهُ
يُطِيـعُ العَوَالِي رُكِّبَتْ كُلَّ لَهْـذَمِ
وَمَنْ لَمْ يَذُدْ عَنْ حَوْضِهِ بِسِلاحِـهِ
يُهَـدَّمْ وَمَنْ لا يَظْلِمْ النَّاسَ يُظْلَـمِ
وَمَنْ يَغْتَرِبْ يَحْسَبْ عَدُواً صَدِيقَـهُ
وَمَنْ لَم يُكَـرِّمْ نَفْسَـهُ لَم يُكَـرَّمِ
وَمَهْمَا تَكُنْ عِنْدَ امْرِئٍ مَنْ خَلِيقَـةٍ
وَإِنْ خَالَهَا تَخْفَى عَلَى النَّاسِ تُعْلَـمِ
وَكَاءٍ تَرَى مِنْ صَامِتٍ لَكَ مُعْجِـبٍ
زِيَـادَتُهُ أَو نَقْصُـهُ فِـي التَّكَلُّـمِ
لِسَانُ الفَتَى نِصْفٌ وَنِصْفٌ فُـؤَادُهُ
فَلَمْ يَبْـقَ إَلا صُورَةُ اللَّحْمِ وَالـدَّمِ
وَإَنَّ سَفَاهَ الشَّـيْخِ لا حِلْمَ بَعْـدَهُ
وَإِنَّ الفَتَـى بَعْدَ السَّفَاهَةِ يَحْلُـمِ
سَألْنَـا فَأَعْطَيْتُـمْ وَعُداً فَعُدْتُـمُ
وَمَنْ أَكْـثَرَ التّسْآلَ يَوْماً سَيُحْـرَمِ


THE POEM OF ZUHAIR1
"Does the blackened ruin, situated in the stony ground between Durraj and Mutathallam, which did not speak to me, when addressed, belong to the abode of Ummi Awfa?
"And is it her dwelling at the two stony meadows, seeming as though they were the renewed tattoo marks in the sinews of the wrist?
"The wild cows and the white deer are wandering about there, one herd behind the other, while their young are springing up from every lying-down place.
"I stood again near it, (the encampment of the tribe of Awfa,) after an absence of twenty years, and with some efforts, I know her abode again after thinking awhile.
"I recognized the three stones blackened by fire at the place where the kettle used to be placed at night, and the trench round the encampment, which had not burst, like the source of a pool.
"And when I recognized the encampment I said to its site, 'Now good morning, oh spot; may you be safe from dangers.'
"Look, oh my friend! do you see any women traveling on camels, going over the high ground above the stream of Jurthum?2
"They have covered their howdahs with coverlets of high value, and with a thin screen, the fringes of which are red, resembling blood.
"And they inclined toward the valley of Soobán, ascending the center of it, and in their faces were the fascinating looks of a soft-bodied person brought up in easy circumstances;
"They arose early in the morning and got up at dawn, and they went straight to the valley of Rass as the hand goes unswervingly to the mouth, when eating.
"And amongst them is a place of amusement for the far-sighted one, and a pleasant sight for the eye of the looker who looks attentively.
"As if the pieces of dyed wool which they left in every place in which they halted, were the seeds of night-shade which have not been crushed.
"When they arrived at the water, the mass of which was blue from intense purity, they laid down their walking sticks, (i.e., took their lodging there,) like the dweller who has pitched his tents.
"They kept the hill of Qanan and the rough ground about it on their hand; while there are many, dwelling in Qanan, the shedding of whose blood is lawful and unlawful.3
"They came out from the valley of Soobán, then they crossed it, riding in every Qainian howdah new and widened.
"Then I swear by the temple, round which walk the men who built it from the tribes of Quraish and Jurhum.4
"An oath, that you are verily two excellent chiefs, who are found worthy of honor in every condition, between ease and distress.5
"The two endeavorers from the tribe of Ghaiz bin Murrah strove in making peace after the connection between the tribes had become broken, on account of the shedding of blood.
"You repaired with peace the condition of the tribes of 'Abs and Zubyán, after they had fought with one another, and ground up the perfume of Manshim between them.6
"And indeed you said, 'if we bring about peace perfectly by the spending of money and the conferring of benefits, and by good words, we shall be safe from the danger of the two tribes, destroying each other.'
"You occupied by reason of this the best of positions, and became far from the reproach of being undutiful and sinful.
"And you became great in the high nobility of Ma'add; may you be guided in the right way; and he who spends his treasure of glory will become great.
"The memory of the wounds is obliterated by the hundreds of camels, and he, who commenced paying off the blood money by instalments, was not guilty of it (i.e., of making war).
"One tribe pays it to another tribe as an indemnity, while they who gave the indemnity did not shed blood sufficient for the filling of a cupping glass.
"Then there was being driven to them from the property you inherited, a booty of various sorts from young camels with slit ears.
"Now, convey from me to the tribe of Zubyán and their allies a message,—'verily you have sworn by every sort of oath to keep the peace.'
"Do not conceal from God what is in your breast that it may be hidden; whatever is concealed, God knows all about it.
"Either it will be put off and placed recorded in a book, and preserved there until the judgment day; or the punishment be hastened and so he will take revenge.
"And war is not but what you have learnt it to be, and what you have experienced, and what is said concerning it, is not a story based on suppositions.
"When you stir it up, you will stir it up as an accursed thing, and it will become greedy when you excite its greed and it will rage fiercely.
"Then it will grind you as the grinding of the upper millstone against the lower, and it will conceive immediately after one birth and it will produce twins.7
"By my life I swear, how good a tribe it is upon whom Husain Bin Zamzam brought an injury by committing a crime which did not please them.8
"And he had concealed his hatred, and did not display it, and did not proceed to carry out his intention until he got a good opportunity.
"And he said, 'I will perform my object of avenging myself, and I will guard myself from my enemy with a thousand bridled horses behind me.'
"Then he attacked his victim from 'Abs, but did not cause fear to the people of the many houses, near which death had thrown down his baggage.9
"They allowed their animals to graze until when the interval between the hours of drinking was finished, they took them to the deep pool, which is divided by weapons and by shedding of blood.10
"They accomplished their object amongst themselves, then they led the animals back to the pasture of unwholesome indigestible grass.
"I have grown weary of the troubles of life; and he, who lives eighty years will, mayest thou have no father if thou doubt11 grow weary.
"And I know what has happened to-day and yesterday, before it, but verily, of the knowledge of what will happen to-morrow; I am ignorant.
"I see death is like the blundering of a blind camel;—him whom he meets he kills, and he whom he misses lives and will become old.
"And he who does not act with kindness in many affairs will be torn by teeth and trampled under foot.
"And he, who makes benevolent acts intervene before honor, increases his honor; and he, who does not avoid abuse, will be abused.
"He, who is possessed of plenty, and is miserly with his great wealth toward his people, will be dispensed with, and abused.
"He who keeps his word, will not be reviled; and he whose heart is guided to self-satisfying benevolence will not stammer.
"And he who dreads the causes of death, they will reach him, even if he ascends the tracts of the heavens with a ladder.
"And he, who shows kindness to one not deserving it, his praise will be a reproach against him, and he will repent of having shown kindness.
"And he who rebels against the butt ends of the spears, then verily he will have to obey the spear points joined to every long spear shaft.12
"And he who does not repulse with his weapons from his tank, will have it broken; and he who does not oppress the people will be oppressed.
"And he who travels should consider his friend an enemy; and he who does not respect himself will not be respected.
"And he, who is always seeking to bear the burdens of other people, and does not excuse himself from it, will one day by reason of his abasement, repent.
"And whatever of character there is in a man, even though he thinks it concealed from people, it is known.
"He, who does not cease asking people to carry him, and does not make himself independent of them even for one day of the time, will be regarded with disgust.
"Many silent ones you see, pleasing to you, but their excess in wisdom or deficiency will appear at the time of talking.
"The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh.
"And verily, as to the folly of an old man there is no wisdom after it, but the young man after his folly may become wise.
"We asked of you, and you gave, and we returned to the asking and you returned to the giving, and he who increases the asking, will one day be disappointed."

Footnotes
1 This poem begins, as do most Arab poems, with love longings, but soon drifts into praise of two peacemakers and the story of the feud between two tribes which preceded the peace. From this field the poem soon wanders to the philosophic maxims of the author. Zuhair is above, all a philosopher.
2 He fancies he sees the women again whom he saw twenty years previously, and he appeals to his companion to know if what he sees is real.
3 There are many enemies and many friends dwelling there.
4 This refers to the temple at Mecca which was built by Ismail, son of Abraham, ancestor of the tribe of Quraish, who married a woman of Jurhum, an old tribe of Yaman, who were the keepers of the temple before Quraish.
5 The theme changes here abruptly, to praise of two peacemakers.
6 Some Arabs, making a league to be revenged against their enemies, took oath with their hands plunged in a certain perfume, made by Manshim, as a sign of their coalition. They fought until they were slain to the last of them. Hence the proverb, "More unlucky than the perfume of Manshim."
7 The misfortunes arising from war are double.
8 Husain Bin Zamzam's father was killed during the war between the Benî Zubyán and the Benî 'Abs. When peace was concluded between the tribes, he made a vow secretly that he would kill one of the tribe of 'Abs out of the revenge for his father. This he did, but when the Benî 'Abs came to take revenge on him, Hárith Ibn 'Awf offered them one hundred camels as blood money or his own son to kill. The 'Absioms took the camels and spared his son. The poet is now praising them for their act.
9 He killed no one while the peace was in force except the one person on whom he meant to take revenge.
10 By the deep pool is meant war, and the meaning of the lines is that the tribes refrained from war for a certain time, after which they again had recourse to arms.
11 A common term of imprecation.
12 The wandering desert Arabs when they met used to present the butt ends of their spears toward one another if their intentions were peaceful, the points if they intended fighting.
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دمعلقة عنتره بن شداد





هَلْ غَادَرَ الشُّعَرَاءُ منْ مُتَـرَدَّمِ
أم هَلْ عَرَفْتَ الدَّارَ بعدَ تَوَهُّـمِ
يَا دَارَ عَبْلـةَ بِالجَواءِ تَكَلَّمِـي
وَعِمِّي صَبَاحاً دَارَ عبْلةَ واسلَمِي
فَوَقَّفْـتُ فيها نَاقَتي وكَأنَّهَـا
فَـدَنٌ لأَقْضي حَاجَةَ المُتَلَـوِّمِ
وتَحُـلُّ عَبلَةُ بِالجَوَاءِ وأَهْلُنَـا
بالحَـزنِ فَالصَّمَـانِ فَالمُتَثَلَّـمِ
حُيِّيْتَ مِنْ طَلَلٍ تَقادَمَ عَهْـدُهُ
أَقْـوى وأَقْفَـرَ بَعدَ أُمِّ الهَيْثَـمِ
حَلَّتْ بِأَرض الزَّائِرينَ فَأَصْبَحَتْ
عسِراً عليَّ طِلاَبُكِ ابنَةَ مَخْـرَمِ
عُلِّقْتُهَـا عَرْضاً وأقْتلُ قَوْمَهَـا
زعماً لعَمرُ أبيكَ لَيسَ بِمَزْعَـمِ
ولقـد نَزَلْتِ فَلا تَظُنِّي غَيْـرهُ
مِنّـي بِمَنْـزِلَةِ المُحِبِّ المُكْـرَمِ
كَـيفَ المَزارُ وقد تَربَّع أَهْلُهَـا
بِعُنَيْـزَتَيْـنِ وأَهْلُنَـا بِالغَيْلَـمِ
إنْ كُنْتِ أزْمَعْتِ الفِراقَ فَإِنَّمَـا
زَمَّـت رِكَائِبُكُمْ بِلَيْلٍ مُظْلِـمِ
مَـا رَاعَنـي إلاَّ حَمولةُ أَهْلِهَـا
وسْطَ الدِّيَارِ تَسُفُّ حَبَّ الخِمْخِمِ
فِيهَـا اثْنَتانِ وأَرْبعونَ حَلُوبَـةً
سُوداً كَخافيةِ الغُرَابِ الأَسْحَـمِ
إذْ تَسْتَبِيْكَ بِذِي غُروبٍ وَاضِحٍ
عَـذْبٍ مُقَبَّلُـهُ لَذيذُ المَطْعَـمِ
وكَـأَنَّ فَارَةَ تَاجِرٍ بِقَسِيْمَـةٍ
سَبَقَتْ عوَارِضَها إليكَ مِن الفَمِ
أوْ روْضـةً أُنُفاً تَضَمَّنَ نَبْتَهَـا
غَيْثٌ قليلُ الدَّمنِ ليسَ بِمَعْلَـمِ
جَـادَتْ علَيهِ كُلُّ بِكرٍ حُـرَّةٍ
فَتَرَكْنَ كُلَّ قَرَارَةٍ كَالدِّرْهَـمِ
سَحّـاً وتَسْكاباً فَكُلَّ عَشِيَّـةٍ
يَجْـرِي عَلَيها المَاءُ لَم يَتَصَـرَّمِ
وَخَلَى الذُّبَابُ بِهَا فَلَيسَ بِبَـارِحٍ
غَرِداً كَفِعْل الشَّاربِ المُتَرَنّـمِ
هَزِجـاً يَحُـكُّ ذِراعَهُ بذِراعِـهِ
قَدْحَ المُكَبِّ على الزِّنَادِ الأَجْـذَمِ
تُمْسِي وتُصْبِحُ فَوْقَ ظَهْرِ حَشيّةٍ
وأَبِيتُ فَوْقَ سرَاةِ أدْهَمَ مُلْجَـمِ
وَحَشِيَّتي سَرْجٌ على عَبْلِ الشَّوَى
نَهْـدٍ مَرَاكِلُـهُ نَبِيلِ المَحْـزِمِ
هَـل تُبْلِغَنِّـي دَارَهَا شَدَنِيَّـةَ
لُعِنَتْ بِمَحْرُومِ الشَّرابِ مُصَـرَّمِ
خَطَّـارَةٌ غِبَّ السُّرَى زَيَّافَـةٌ
تَطِـسُ الإِكَامَ بِوَخذِ خُفٍّ مِيْثَمِ
وكَأَنَّمَا تَطِـسُ الإِكَامَ عَشِيَّـةً
بِقَـريبِ بَينَ المَنْسِمَيْنِ مُصَلَّـمِ
تَأْوِي لَهُ قُلُصُ النَّعَامِ كَما أَوَتْ
حِـزَقٌ يَمَانِيَّةٌ لأَعْجَمَ طِمْطِـمِ
يَتْبَعْـنَ قُلَّـةَ رأْسِـهِ وكأَنَّـهُ
حَـرَجٌ على نَعْشٍ لَهُنَّ مُخَيَّـمِ
صَعْلٍ يعُودُ بِذِي العُشَيرَةِ بَيْضَـةُ
كَالعَبْدِ ذِي الفَرْو الطَّويلِ الأَصْلَمِ
شَرَبَتْ بِماءِ الدُّحرُضينِ فَأَصْبَحَتْ
زَوْراءَ تَنْفِرُ عن حيَاضِ الدَّيْلَـمِ
وكَأَنَّما يَنْأَى بِجـانبِ دَفَّها الـ
وَحْشِيِّ مِنْ هَزِجِ العَشِيِّ مُـؤَوَّمِ
هِـرٍّ جَنيبٍ كُلَّما عَطَفَتْ لـهُ
غَضَبَ اتَّقاهَا بِاليَدَينِ وَبِالفَـمِ
بَرَكَتْ عَلَى جَنبِ الرِّدَاعِ كَأَنَّـما
بَرَكَتْ عَلَى قَصَبٍ أَجَشَّ مُهَضَّمِ
وكَـأَنَّ رُبًّا أَوْ كُحَيْلاً مُقْعَـداً
حَشَّ الوَقُودُ بِهِ جَوَانِبَ قُمْقُـمِ
يَنْبَاعُ منْ ذِفْرَى غَضوبٍ جَسرَةٍ
زَيَّافَـةٍ مِثـلَ الفَنيـقِ المُكْـدَمِ
إِنْ تُغْدِفي دُونِي القِناعَ فإِنَّنِـي
طَـبٌّ بِأَخذِ الفَارسِ المُسْتَلْئِـمِ
أَثْنِـي عَلَيَّ بِمَا عَلِمْتِ فإِنَّنِـي
سَمْـحٌ مُخَالقَتي إِذَا لم أُظْلَـمِ
وإِذَا ظُلِمْتُ فإِنَّ ظُلْمِي بَاسِـلٌ
مُـرٌّ مَذَاقَتُـهُ كَطَعمِ العَلْقَـمِ
ولقَد شَربْتُ مِنَ المُدَامةِ بَعْدَمـا
رَكَدَ الهَواجرُ بِالمشوفِ المُعْلَـمِ
بِزُجاجَـةٍ صَفْراءَ ذاتِ أَسِـرَّةٍ
قُرِنَتْ بِأَزْهَر في الشَّمالِ مُقَـدَّمِ
فإِذَا شَـرَبْتُ فإِنَّنِي مُسْتَهْلِـكٌ
مَالـي وعِرْضي وافِرٌ لَم يُكلَـمِ
وإِذَا صَحَوتُ فَما أَقَصِّرُ عنْ نَدَىً
وكَما عَلمتِ شَمائِلي وتَكَرُّمـي
وحَلِـيلِ غَانِيةٍ تَرَكْتُ مُجـدَّلاً
تَمكُو فَريصَتُهُ كَشَدْقِ الأَعْلَـمِ
سَبَقَـتْ يَدايَ لهُ بِعاجِلِ طَعْنَـةٍ
ورِشـاشِ نافِـذَةٍ كَلَوْنِ العَنْـدَمِ
هَلاَّ سأَلْتِ الخَيـلَ يا ابنةَ مالِـكٍ
إنْ كُنْتِ جاهِلَةً بِـمَا لَم تَعْلَمِـي
إِذْ لا أزَالُ عَلَى رِحَالـةِ سَابِـحٍ
نَهْـدٍ تعـاوَرُهُ الكُمـاةُ مُكَلَّـمِ
طَـوْراً يُـجَرَّدُ للطَّعانِ وتَـارَةً
يَأْوِي إلى حَصِدِ القِسِيِّ عَرَمْـرِمِ
يُخْبِـركِ مَنْ شَهَدَ الوَقيعَةَ أنَّنِـي
أَغْشى الوَغَى وأَعِفُّ عِنْد المَغْنَـمِ
ومُـدَّجِجٍ كَـرِهَ الكُماةُ نِزَالَـهُ
لامُمْعـنٍ هَـرَباً ولا مُسْتَسْلِـمِ
جَـادَتْ لهُ كَفِّي بِعاجِلِ طَعْنـةٍ
بِمُثَقَّـفٍ صَدْقِ الكُعُوبِ مُقَـوَّمِ
فَشَكَكْـتُ بِالرُّمْحِ الأَصَمِّ ثِيابـهُ
ليـسَ الكَريمُ على القَنا بِمُحَـرَّمِ
فتَـركْتُهُ جَزَرَ السِّبَـاعِ يَنَشْنَـهُ
يَقْضِمْـنَ حُسْنَ بَنانهِ والمِعْصَـمِ
ومِشَكِّ سابِغةٍ هَتَكْتُ فُروجَهـا
بِالسَّيف عنْ حَامِي الحَقيقَة مُعْلِـمِ
رَبِـذٍ يَـدَاهُ بالقِـدَاح إِذَا شَتَـا
هَتَّـاكِ غَايـاتِ التَّجـارِ مُلَـوَّمِ
لـمَّا رَآنِي قَـدْ نَزَلـتُ أُريـدُهُ
أَبْـدَى نَواجِـذَهُ لِغَيـرِ تَبَسُّـمِ
عَهـدِي بِهِ مَدَّ النَّهـارِ كَأَنَّمـا
خُضِـبَ البَنَانُ ورَأُسُهُ بِالعَظْلَـمِ
فَطعنْتُـهُ بِالرُّمْـحِ ثُـمَّ عَلَوْتُـهُ
بِمُهَنَّـدٍ صافِي الحَديدَةِ مِخْـذَمِ
بَطـلٌ كأَنَّ ثِيـابَهُ في سَرْجـةٍ
يُحْذَى نِعَالَ السِّبْتِ ليْسَ بِتَـوْأَمِ
ياشَـاةَ ما قَنَصٍ لِمَنْ حَلَّتْ لـهُ
حَـرُمَتْ عَلَيَّ وَلَيْتَها لم تَحْـرُمِ
فَبَعَثْتُ جَارِيَتي فَقُلْتُ لها اذْهَبـي
فَتَجَسَّسِي أَخْبارَها لِيَ واعْلَمِـي
قَالتْ : رَأيتُ مِنَ الأَعادِي غِـرَّةً
والشَاةُ مُمْكِنَةٌ لِمَنْ هُو مُرْتَمـي
وكـأَنَّمَا التَفَتَتْ بِجِيدِ جَدَايـةٍ
رَشَـاءٍ مِنَ الغِـزْلانِ حُرٍ أَرْثَـمِ
نُبّئـتُ عَمْراً غَيْرَ شاكِرِ نِعْمَتِـي
والكُـفْرُ مَخْبَثَـةٌ لِنَفْسِ المُنْعِـمِ
ولقَدْ حَفِظْتُ وَصَاةَ عَمِّي بِالضُّحَى
إِذْ تَقْلِصُ الشَّفَتَانِ عَنْ وَضَحِ الفَمِ
في حَوْمَةِ الحَرْبِ التي لا تَشْتَكِـي
غَمَـرَاتِها الأَبْطَالُ غَيْرَ تَغَمْغُـمِ
إِذْ يَتَّقُـونَ بـيَ الأَسِنَّةَ لم أَخِـمْ
عَنْـها ولَكنِّي تَضَايَقَ مُقْدَمـي
لـمَّا رَأيْتُ القَوْمَ أقْبَلَ جَمْعُهُـمْ
يَتَـذَامَرُونَ كَرَرْتُ غَيْرَ مُذَمَّـمِ
يَدْعُـونَ عَنْتَرَ والرِّماحُ كأَنَّهـا
أشْطَـانُ بِئْـرٍ في لَبانِ الأَدْهَـمِ
مازِلْـتُ أَرْمِيهُـمْ بِثُغْرَةِ نَحْـرِهِ
ولِبـانِهِ حَتَّـى تَسَـرْبَلَ بِالـدَّمِ
فَـازْوَرَّ مِنْ وَقْـعِ القَنا بِلِبانِـهِ
وشَـكَا إِلَىَّ بِعَبْـرَةٍ وَتَحَمْحُـمِ
لو كانَ يَدْرِي مَا المُحاوَرَةُ اشْتَكَى
وَلَـكانَ لو عَلِمْ الكَلامَ مُكَلِّمِـي
ولقَـدْ شَفَى نَفْسي وَأَذهَبَ سُقْمَهَـا
قِيْلُ الفَـوارِسِ وَيْكَ عَنْتَرَ أَقْـدِمِ
والخَيـلُ تَقْتَحِمُ الخَبَارَ عَوَابِسـاً
مِن بَيْنَ شَيْظَمَـةٍ وَآخَرَ شَيْظَـمِ
ذُللٌ رِكَابِي حَيْثُ شِئْتُ مُشَايعِي
لُـبِّي وأَحْفِـزُهُ بِأَمْـرٍ مُبْـرَمِ
ولقَدْ خَشَيْتُ بِأَنْ أَمُوتَ ولَم تَـدُرْ
للحَرْبِ دَائِرَةٌ على ابْنَي ضَمْضَـمِ
الشَّـاتِمِيْ عِرْضِي ولَم أَشْتِمْهُمَـا
والنَّـاذِرَيْـنِ إِذْ لَم أَلقَهُمَا دَمِـي
إِنْ يَفْعَـلا فَلَقَدْ تَرَكتُ أَباهُمَـا
جَـزَرَ السِّباعِ وكُلِّ نِسْرٍ قَشْعَـمِ"


THE POEM OF ANTAR1
Have the poets left in the garment a place for a patch to be patched by me; and did you know the abode of your beloved after reflection?2
The vestige of the house, which did not speak, confounded thee, until it spoke by means of signs, like one deaf and dumb.
Verily, I kept my she-camel there long grumbling, with a yearning at the blackened stones, keeping and standing firm in their own places.
It is the abode of a friend, languishing in her glance, submissive in the embrace, pleasant of smile.
Oh house of 'Ablah situated at Jiwaa, talk with me about those who resided in you. Good morning to you, O house of 'Ablah, and be safe from ruin.
I halted my she-camel in that place; and it was as though she were a high palace; in order that I might perform the wont of the lingerer.
And 'Ablah takes up her abode at Jiwaa; while our people went to Hazan, then to Mutathallam.
She took up her abode in the land of my enemies; so it became difficult for me to seek you, O daughter of Mahzam.
I was enamored of her unawares, at a time when I was killing her people, desiring her in marriage; but by your father's life I swear, this was not the time for desiring.3
And verily you have occupied in my heart the place of the honored loved one, so do not think otherwise than this, that you are my beloved.
And how may be the visiting of her; while her people have taken up their residence in the spring at 'Unaizatain and our people at Ghailam?
I knew that you had intended departing, for, verily, your camels were bridled on a dark night.
Nothing caused me fear of her departure, except that the baggage camels of her people were eating the seeds of the Khimkhim tree throughout the country.4
Amongst them were two and forty milk-giving camels, black as the wing-feathers of black crows.
When she captivates you with a mouth possessing sharp, and white teeth, sweet as to its place of kissing, delicious of taste.
As if she sees with the two eyes of a young, grown up gazelle from the deer.
It was as though the musk bag of a merchant in his case of perfumes preceded her teeth toward you from her mouth.
Or as if it is an old wine-skin, from Azri'at, preserved long, such as the kings of Rome preserve;
Or her mouth is as an ungrazed meadow, whose herbage the rain has guaranteed, in which there is but little dung; and which is not marked with the feet of animals.
The first pure showers of every rain-cloud rained upon it, and left every puddle in it bright and round like a dirham;
Sprinkling and pouring; so that the water flows upon it every evening, and is not cut off from it.
The fly enjoyed yet alone, and so it did not cease humming, as is the act of the singing drunkard;
Humming, while he rubs one foreleg against the other, as the striking on the flint of one, bent on the flint, and cut off as to his palm.
She passes her evenings and her mornings on the surface of a well-stuffed couch, while I pass my nights on the back of a bridled black horse.
And my couch is a saddle upon a horse big-boned in the leg, big in his flanks, great of girth.
Would a Shadanian she-camel cause me to arrive at her abode, who is cursed with an udder scanty of milk and cut off?5
After traveling all night, she is lashing her sides with her tail, and is strutting proudly, and she breaks up the mounds of earth she passes over with her foot with its sole, treading hard.
As if I in the evening am breaking the mounds of earth by means of an ostrich, very small as to the distance between its two feet, and earless.6
The young ostriches flock toward him, as the herds of Yamanian camels flock to a barbarous, unintelligible speaker.
They follow the crest of his head, as though it was a howdah on a large litter, tented for them.
He is small headed, who returns constantly to look after his eggs at Zil-'Ushairah; he is like a slave, with a long fur cloak and without ears.
She drank of the water of Duhruzain and then turned away, being disgusted, from the pools of stagnant water.7
And she swerves away with her right side from the fear of one, whistling in the evening, a big, ugly-headed one;8
From the fear of a cat, led at her side, every time she turned toward him, in anger, he met her with both claws and mouth.
She knelt down at the edge of the pool of Rada', and groaned as though she had knelt on a reed, broken, and emitting a cracking noise.
And the sweat on the back was as though it were oil or thick pitch, with which fire is lighted round the sides of a retort.
Her places of flexure were wetted with it and she lavishly poured of it, on a spreading forelock, short and well-bred.
The length of the journey left her a strong, well-built body, like a high palace, built with cement, and rising high; and feet like the supports of a firmly pitched tent.
And surely I recollected you, even when the lances were drinking my blood, and bright swords of Indian make were dripping with my blood.
I wished to kiss the swords, for verily they shone as bright as the flash of the foretooth of your smiling mouth.
If you lower your veil over yourself in front of me, of what use will it be? for, verily, I am expert in capturing the mailed horseman.
Praise me for the qualities which you know I possess, for, verily, when I am not ill-treated, I am gentle to associate with.
And if I am ill-treated, then, verily, my tyranny is severe, very bitter is the taste of it, as the taste of the colocynth.
And, verily, I have drunk wine after the midday heats have subsided, buying it with the bright stamped coin.
From a glass, yellow with the lines of the glass-cutter on it, which was accompanied by a white-stoppered bottle on the left-hand side.
And when I have drunk, verily, I am the squanderer of my property, and my honor is great, and is not sullied.9
And when I have become sober, I do not diminish in my generosity, and as you know, so are my qualities and my liberality.
And many a husband of a beautiful woman, I have left prostrate on the ground, with his shoulders hissing like the side of the mouth of one with a split lip.10
My two hands preceded him with a hasty blow, striking him before he could strike me; and with the drops of blood from a penetrating stroke, red like the color of Brazil wood.
Why did you not ask the horsemen, O daughter Malik! if you were ignorant, concerning what you did not know about my condition,
At a time when I never ceased to be in the saddle of a long striding, wounded, sturdy horse, against whom the warriors came in succession.
At one time he is detached to charge the enemy with the lance, and at another he joins the large host with their bows tightly strung.
He who was present in the battle will inform you that verily I rush into battle, but I abstain at the time of taking the booty.
I see spoils, which, if I want I would win; but my bashfulness and my magnanimity hold me back from them.
And many a fully armed one, whom the warriors shunned fighting with, neither a hastener in flight, nor a surrenderer;
My hands were generous to him by a quick point with a straightened spear, strong in the joints;
Inflicting a wound wide of its two sides, the sound of the flow of blood from it leads at night the prowling wolves, burning with hunger.
I rent his vesture with a rigid spear, for the noble one is not forbidden to the spears.
Then I left him a prey for the wild beasts, who seize him, and gnaw the beauty of his fingers and wrist.
And many a long, closely woven coat of mail, I have split open the links of it, with a sword, off one defending his rights, and renowned for bravery.
Whose hands are ready with gambling arrows when it is winter, a tearer-down of the signs of the wine-sellers, and one reproached for his extravagance.11
When he saw that I had descended from my horse and was intending killing him, he showed his teeth, but without smiling.12
My meeting with him was when the day spread out, and he was as if his fingers and his head were dyed with indigo.13
I pierced him with my spear, and then I set upon him with my Indian sword pure of steel, and keen.
A warrior, so stately in size as if his clothes were on a high tree: soft leather shoes are worn by him and he is not twinned.
Oh, how wonderful is the beauty of the doe of the hunt, to whom is she lawful? To me she is unlawful; would to God that she was not unlawful.14
So, I sent my female slave, and said to her, "Go, find out news of her and inform me."
She said, "I saw carelessness on the part of the enemies, and that the doe is possible to him who is shooting."
And it was as though she looked toward me with the neck of a doe, a fawn of the gazelles, pure and with a white upper lip.
I am informed that 'Amru is unthankful for my kindness while ingratitude is a cause of evil to the soul of the giver.15
And, verily, I remember the advice of my uncle, in the battle, when the two lips quiver from off the white teeth of the mouth,
In the thick of the battle, of which the warriors do not complain of the rigors, except with an unintelligible noise.
When they (i.e., my people) defended themselves with me against the spears of the enemy, I did not refrain from them (i.e., the spears) through cowardice, but the place of my advance had become too strait.
When I heard the cry of Murrah rise, and saw the two sons of Rabi'ah in the thick dust,
While the tribe of Muhallam were struggling under their banners, and death was under the banners of the tribe of Mulhallam {sic.},
I made sure that at the time of their encounter there would be a blow, which would make the heads fly from the bodies, as the bird flies from off her young ones sitting close.
When I saw the people, while their mass advanced, excite one another to fight, I turned against them without being reproached for any want of bravery.
They were calling 'Antarah, while the spears were as though they were well-ropes in the breast of Adham.
They were calling 'Antarah, while the swords were as though they were the flash of lightnings in a dark cloud.
They were calling 'Antarah, while the arrows were flying, as though they were a flight of locusts, hovering above watering places.
They were calling " O 'Antarah," while the coats of mail shone with close rings, shining as though they were the eyeballs of frogs floating in a wavy pond.
I did not cease charging them, (the enemy,) with the prominent part of his (horse's) throat and breast, until he became covered with a shirt of blood.
Then he turned on account of the falling of the spears on his breast, and complained to me with tears and whinnyings.
If he had known what conversation was, he would have complained with words, and verily he would have, had he known speech, talked with me.
And verily the speech of the horsemen, "Woe to you, 'Antarah, advance, and attack the enemy," cured my soul and removed its sickness.
While the horses sternly frowning were charging over the soft soil, being partly the long-bodied mares, and partly the long-bodied, well-bred horses.
My riding-camels are tractable, they go wherever I wish; while my intellect is my helper, and I drive it forward with a firm order.16
Verily, it lay beyond my power that I should visit you; so, know what you have known, and some of what you have not known.
The lances of the tribe of Bagheez intercepted you and the perpetrators of the war set aside those who did not perpetrate it.
And, verily, I turned the horse for the attack, while his neck was bleeding, until the horses began to shun me.
And verily I feared that I should die, while there has not yet been a turn for war against the two sons of Zamzam;17
The two revilers of my honor, while I did not revile them, and the threateners of my blood, when I did not see them.
There is no wonder should they do so, for I left their father a prey for the wild beasts and every large old vulture.
1 This is the Antar, or Antarah, who became the most noted of Arab heroes of romance.
2 That is, have the poets left any deficiency to be supplied? Have the poets of the former days left any poetry unsaid that the poets of the present day may say it?
3 When there was war between the two tribes, there was little use his wishing to marry her.
4 He knew that her tribe would have to move on, as there was no forage left for their camels.
5 A she-camel, upon whom this operation has been performed, is swifter, stronger, and fatter than others.
6 He compares the fleetness of the camel to that of an ostrich.
7 Referring to the she-camel.
8 The big, ugly-headed one is the whip with its heavy handle, or a cat.
9 That is, drunkenness makes him generous and not ill-tempered. The Arabs, before Mohammed, considered drinking with one's friends to show a generous disposition.
10 That is, the blood was spurting and hissing from a wound in his shoulder.
11 The richer Arabs gamble as to who shall kill his camel in the time of scarcity to distribute the flesh amongst the poor. The wine-sellers take down their signs when they have run out of liquor; the meaning of tearing down the signs being that he drinks up all their wine.
12 The allusion is to the poet's killing Zamzam, father of Husain and Harim, who insulted him. See close of the poem.
13 The dried blood was of an indigo color.
14 Here he again reverts to address his sweetheart. The Arabs may not marry with a woman of a tribe with whom they are at war.

16 That is, I carry out my plans with sagacity and determination.
17 I feared that I should die, before I had fought the two sons of Zamzam. 'Antarah killed their father during the war between the tribes of' Abs and Fazárah, wherein the latter were defeated with great loss. Harim and Husain, the two sons of Zamzam, were killed shortly afterward.
15 'Amru, the 'Absian, who insulted the poet.
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Hello sir,
Is these 3 are enough? or We have any more poem to translate other than these?
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هَلْ غَادَرَ الشُّعَرَاءُ منْ مُتَـرَدَّمِ
أم هَلْ عَرَفْتَ الدَّارَ بعدَ تَوَهُّـمِ
يَا دَارَ عَبْلـةَ بِالجَواءِ تَكَلَّمِـي
وَعِمِّي صَبَاحاً دَارَ عبْلةَ واسلَمِي
فَوَقَّفْـتُ فيها نَاقَتي وكَأنَّهَـا
فَـدَنٌ لأَقْضي حَاجَةَ المُتَلَـوِّمِ
وتَحُـلُّ عَبلَةُ بِالجَوَاءِ وأَهْلُنَـا
بالحَـزنِ فَالصَّمَـانِ فَالمُتَثَلَّـمِ
حُيِّيْتَ مِنْ طَلَلٍ تَقادَمَ عَهْـدُهُ
أَقْـوى وأَقْفَـرَ بَعدَ أُمِّ الهَيْثَـمِ
حَلَّتْ بِأَرض الزَّائِرينَ فَأَصْبَحَتْ
عسِراً عليَّ طِلاَبُكِ ابنَةَ مَخْـرَمِ
عُلِّقْتُهَـا عَرْضاً وأقْتلُ قَوْمَهَـا
زعماً لعَمرُ أبيكَ لَيسَ بِمَزْعَـمِ
ولقـد نَزَلْتِ فَلا تَظُنِّي غَيْـرهُ
مِنّـي بِمَنْـزِلَةِ المُحِبِّ المُكْـرَمِ
كَـيفَ المَزارُ وقد تَربَّع أَهْلُهَـا
بِعُنَيْـزَتَيْـنِ وأَهْلُنَـا بِالغَيْلَـمِ
إنْ كُنْتِ أزْمَعْتِ الفِراقَ فَإِنَّمَـا
زَمَّـت رِكَائِبُكُمْ بِلَيْلٍ مُظْلِـمِ
مَـا رَاعَنـي إلاَّ حَمولةُ أَهْلِهَـا
وسْطَ الدِّيَارِ تَسُفُّ حَبَّ الخِمْخِمِ
فِيهَـا اثْنَتانِ وأَرْبعونَ حَلُوبَـةً
سُوداً كَخافيةِ الغُرَابِ الأَسْحَـمِ
إذْ تَسْتَبِيْكَ بِذِي غُروبٍ وَاضِحٍ
عَـذْبٍ مُقَبَّلُـهُ لَذيذُ المَطْعَـمِ
وكَـأَنَّ فَارَةَ تَاجِرٍ بِقَسِيْمَـةٍ
سَبَقَتْ عوَارِضَها إليكَ مِن الفَمِ
أوْ روْضـةً أُنُفاً تَضَمَّنَ نَبْتَهَـا
غَيْثٌ قليلُ الدَّمنِ ليسَ بِمَعْلَـمِ
جَـادَتْ علَيهِ كُلُّ بِكرٍ حُـرَّةٍ
فَتَرَكْنَ كُلَّ قَرَارَةٍ كَالدِّرْهَـمِ
سَحّـاً وتَسْكاباً فَكُلَّ عَشِيَّـةٍ
يَجْـرِي عَلَيها المَاءُ لَم يَتَصَـرَّمِ
وَخَلَى الذُّبَابُ بِهَا فَلَيسَ بِبَـارِحٍ
غَرِداً كَفِعْل الشَّاربِ المُتَرَنّـمِ
هَزِجـاً يَحُـكُّ ذِراعَهُ بذِراعِـهِ
قَدْحَ المُكَبِّ على الزِّنَادِ الأَجْـذَمِ
تُمْسِي وتُصْبِحُ فَوْقَ ظَهْرِ حَشيّةٍ
وأَبِيتُ فَوْقَ سرَاةِ أدْهَمَ مُلْجَـمِ
وَحَشِيَّتي سَرْجٌ على عَبْلِ الشَّوَى
نَهْـدٍ مَرَاكِلُـهُ نَبِيلِ المَحْـزِمِ
هَـل تُبْلِغَنِّـي دَارَهَا شَدَنِيَّـةَ
لُعِنَتْ بِمَحْرُومِ الشَّرابِ مُصَـرَّمِ
خَطَّـارَةٌ غِبَّ السُّرَى زَيَّافَـةٌ
تَطِـسُ الإِكَامَ بِوَخذِ خُفٍّ مِيْثَمِ
وكَأَنَّمَا تَطِـسُ الإِكَامَ عَشِيَّـةً
بِقَـريبِ بَينَ المَنْسِمَيْنِ مُصَلَّـمِ
تَأْوِي لَهُ قُلُصُ النَّعَامِ كَما أَوَتْ
حِـزَقٌ يَمَانِيَّةٌ لأَعْجَمَ طِمْطِـمِ
يَتْبَعْـنَ قُلَّـةَ رأْسِـهِ وكأَنَّـهُ
حَـرَجٌ على نَعْشٍ لَهُنَّ مُخَيَّـمِ
صَعْلٍ يعُودُ بِذِي العُشَيرَةِ بَيْضَـةُ
كَالعَبْدِ ذِي الفَرْو الطَّويلِ الأَصْلَمِ
شَرَبَتْ بِماءِ الدُّحرُضينِ فَأَصْبَحَتْ
زَوْراءَ تَنْفِرُ عن حيَاضِ الدَّيْلَـمِ
وكَأَنَّما يَنْأَى بِجـانبِ دَفَّها الـ
وَحْشِيِّ مِنْ هَزِجِ العَشِيِّ مُـؤَوَّمِ
هِـرٍّ جَنيبٍ كُلَّما عَطَفَتْ لـهُ
غَضَبَ اتَّقاهَا بِاليَدَينِ وَبِالفَـمِ
بَرَكَتْ عَلَى جَنبِ الرِّدَاعِ كَأَنَّـما
بَرَكَتْ عَلَى قَصَبٍ أَجَشَّ مُهَضَّمِ
وكَـأَنَّ رُبًّا أَوْ كُحَيْلاً مُقْعَـداً
حَشَّ الوَقُودُ بِهِ جَوَانِبَ قُمْقُـمِ
يَنْبَاعُ منْ ذِفْرَى غَضوبٍ جَسرَةٍ
زَيَّافَـةٍ مِثـلَ الفَنيـقِ المُكْـدَمِ
إِنْ تُغْدِفي دُونِي القِناعَ فإِنَّنِـي
طَـبٌّ بِأَخذِ الفَارسِ المُسْتَلْئِـمِ
أَثْنِـي عَلَيَّ بِمَا عَلِمْتِ فإِنَّنِـي
سَمْـحٌ مُخَالقَتي إِذَا لم أُظْلَـمِ
وإِذَا ظُلِمْتُ فإِنَّ ظُلْمِي بَاسِـلٌ
مُـرٌّ مَذَاقَتُـهُ كَطَعمِ العَلْقَـمِ
ولقَد شَربْتُ مِنَ المُدَامةِ بَعْدَمـا
رَكَدَ الهَواجرُ بِالمشوفِ المُعْلَـمِ
بِزُجاجَـةٍ صَفْراءَ ذاتِ أَسِـرَّةٍ
قُرِنَتْ بِأَزْهَر في الشَّمالِ مُقَـدَّمِ
فإِذَا شَـرَبْتُ فإِنَّنِي مُسْتَهْلِـكٌ
مَالـي وعِرْضي وافِرٌ لَم يُكلَـمِ
وإِذَا صَحَوتُ فَما أَقَصِّرُ عنْ نَدَىً
وكَما عَلمتِ شَمائِلي وتَكَرُّمـي
وحَلِـيلِ غَانِيةٍ تَرَكْتُ مُجـدَّلاً
تَمكُو فَريصَتُهُ كَشَدْقِ الأَعْلَـمِ
سَبَقَـتْ يَدايَ لهُ بِعاجِلِ طَعْنَـةٍ
ورِشـاشِ نافِـذَةٍ كَلَوْنِ العَنْـدَمِ
هَلاَّ سأَلْتِ الخَيـلَ يا ابنةَ مالِـكٍ
إنْ كُنْتِ جاهِلَةً بِـمَا لَم تَعْلَمِـي
إِذْ لا أزَالُ عَلَى رِحَالـةِ سَابِـحٍ
نَهْـدٍ تعـاوَرُهُ الكُمـاةُ مُكَلَّـمِ
طَـوْراً يُـجَرَّدُ للطَّعانِ وتَـارَةً
يَأْوِي إلى حَصِدِ القِسِيِّ عَرَمْـرِمِ
يُخْبِـركِ مَنْ شَهَدَ الوَقيعَةَ أنَّنِـي
أَغْشى الوَغَى وأَعِفُّ عِنْد المَغْنَـمِ
ومُـدَّجِجٍ كَـرِهَ الكُماةُ نِزَالَـهُ
لامُمْعـنٍ هَـرَباً ولا مُسْتَسْلِـمِ
جَـادَتْ لهُ كَفِّي بِعاجِلِ طَعْنـةٍ
بِمُثَقَّـفٍ صَدْقِ الكُعُوبِ مُقَـوَّمِ
فَشَكَكْـتُ بِالرُّمْحِ الأَصَمِّ ثِيابـهُ
ليـسَ الكَريمُ على القَنا بِمُحَـرَّمِ
فتَـركْتُهُ جَزَرَ السِّبَـاعِ يَنَشْنَـهُ
يَقْضِمْـنَ حُسْنَ بَنانهِ والمِعْصَـمِ
ومِشَكِّ سابِغةٍ هَتَكْتُ فُروجَهـا
بِالسَّيف عنْ حَامِي الحَقيقَة مُعْلِـمِ
رَبِـذٍ يَـدَاهُ بالقِـدَاح إِذَا شَتَـا
هَتَّـاكِ غَايـاتِ التَّجـارِ مُلَـوَّمِ
لـمَّا رَآنِي قَـدْ نَزَلـتُ أُريـدُهُ
أَبْـدَى نَواجِـذَهُ لِغَيـرِ تَبَسُّـمِ
عَهـدِي بِهِ مَدَّ النَّهـارِ كَأَنَّمـا
خُضِـبَ البَنَانُ ورَأُسُهُ بِالعَظْلَـمِ
فَطعنْتُـهُ بِالرُّمْـحِ ثُـمَّ عَلَوْتُـهُ
بِمُهَنَّـدٍ صافِي الحَديدَةِ مِخْـذَمِ
بَطـلٌ كأَنَّ ثِيـابَهُ في سَرْجـةٍ
يُحْذَى نِعَالَ السِّبْتِ ليْسَ بِتَـوْأَمِ
ياشَـاةَ ما قَنَصٍ لِمَنْ حَلَّتْ لـهُ
حَـرُمَتْ عَلَيَّ وَلَيْتَها لم تَحْـرُمِ
فَبَعَثْتُ جَارِيَتي فَقُلْتُ لها اذْهَبـي
فَتَجَسَّسِي أَخْبارَها لِيَ واعْلَمِـي
قَالتْ : رَأيتُ مِنَ الأَعادِي غِـرَّةً
والشَاةُ مُمْكِنَةٌ لِمَنْ هُو مُرْتَمـي
وكـأَنَّمَا التَفَتَتْ بِجِيدِ جَدَايـةٍ
رَشَـاءٍ مِنَ الغِـزْلانِ حُرٍ أَرْثَـمِ
نُبّئـتُ عَمْراً غَيْرَ شاكِرِ نِعْمَتِـي
والكُـفْرُ مَخْبَثَـةٌ لِنَفْسِ المُنْعِـمِ
ولقَدْ حَفِظْتُ وَصَاةَ عَمِّي بِالضُّحَى
إِذْ تَقْلِصُ الشَّفَتَانِ عَنْ وَضَحِ الفَمِ
في حَوْمَةِ الحَرْبِ التي لا تَشْتَكِـي
غَمَـرَاتِها الأَبْطَالُ غَيْرَ تَغَمْغُـمِ
إِذْ يَتَّقُـونَ بـيَ الأَسِنَّةَ لم أَخِـمْ
عَنْـها ولَكنِّي تَضَايَقَ مُقْدَمـي
لـمَّا رَأيْتُ القَوْمَ أقْبَلَ جَمْعُهُـمْ
يَتَـذَامَرُونَ كَرَرْتُ غَيْرَ مُذَمَّـمِ
يَدْعُـونَ عَنْتَرَ والرِّماحُ كأَنَّهـا
أشْطَـانُ بِئْـرٍ في لَبانِ الأَدْهَـمِ
مازِلْـتُ أَرْمِيهُـمْ بِثُغْرَةِ نَحْـرِهِ
ولِبـانِهِ حَتَّـى تَسَـرْبَلَ بِالـدَّمِ
فَـازْوَرَّ مِنْ وَقْـعِ القَنا بِلِبانِـهِ
وشَـكَا إِلَىَّ بِعَبْـرَةٍ وَتَحَمْحُـمِ
لو كانَ يَدْرِي مَا المُحاوَرَةُ اشْتَكَى
وَلَـكانَ لو عَلِمْ الكَلامَ مُكَلِّمِـي
ولقَـدْ شَفَى نَفْسي وَأَذهَبَ سُقْمَهَـا
قِيْلُ الفَـوارِسِ وَيْكَ عَنْتَرَ أَقْـدِمِ
والخَيـلُ تَقْتَحِمُ الخَبَارَ عَوَابِسـاً
مِن بَيْنَ شَيْظَمَـةٍ وَآخَرَ شَيْظَـمِ
ذُللٌ رِكَابِي حَيْثُ شِئْتُ مُشَايعِي
لُـبِّي وأَحْفِـزُهُ بِأَمْـرٍ مُبْـرَمِ
ولقَدْ خَشَيْتُ بِأَنْ أَمُوتَ ولَم تَـدُرْ
للحَرْبِ دَائِرَةٌ على ابْنَي ضَمْضَـمِ
الشَّـاتِمِيْ عِرْضِي ولَم أَشْتِمْهُمَـا
والنَّـاذِرَيْـنِ إِذْ لَم أَلقَهُمَا دَمِـي
إِنْ يَفْعَـلا فَلَقَدْ تَرَكتُ أَباهُمَـا
جَـزَرَ السِّباعِ وكُلِّ نِسْرٍ قَشْعَـمِ"


THE POEM OF ANTAR1
Have the poets left in the garment a place for a patch to be patched by me; and did you know the abode of your beloved after reflection?2
The vestige of the house, which did not speak, confounded thee, until it spoke by means of signs, like one deaf and dumb.
Verily, I kept my she-camel there long grumbling, with a yearning at the blackened stones, keeping and standing firm in their own places.
It is the abode of a friend, languishing in her glance, submissive in the embrace, pleasant of smile.
Oh house of 'Ablah situated at Jiwaa, talk with me about those who resided in you. Good morning to you, O house of 'Ablah, and be safe from ruin.
I halted my she-camel in that place; and it was as though she were a high palace; in order that I might perform the wont of the lingerer.
And 'Ablah takes up her abode at Jiwaa; while our people went to Hazan, then to Mutathallam.
She took up her abode in the land of my enemies; so it became difficult for me to seek you, O daughter of Mahzam.
I was enamored of her unawares, at a time when I was killing her people, desiring her in marriage; but by your father's life I swear, this was not the time for desiring.3
And verily you have occupied in my heart the place of the honored loved one, so do not think otherwise than this, that you are my beloved.
And how may be the visiting of her; while her people have taken up their residence in the spring at 'Unaizatain and our people at Ghailam?
I knew that you had intended departing, for, verily, your camels were bridled on a dark night.
Nothing caused me fear of her departure, except that the baggage camels of her people were eating the seeds of the Khimkhim tree throughout the country.4
Amongst them were two and forty milk-giving camels, black as the wing-feathers of black crows.
When she captivates you with a mouth possessing sharp, and white teeth, sweet as to its place of kissing, delicious of taste.
As if she sees with the two eyes of a young, grown up gazelle from the deer.
It was as though the musk bag of a merchant in his case of perfumes preceded her teeth toward you from her mouth.
Or as if it is an old wine-skin, from Azri'at, preserved long, such as the kings of Rome preserve;
Or her mouth is as an ungrazed meadow, whose herbage the rain has guaranteed, in which there is but little dung; and which is not marked with the feet of animals.
The first pure showers of every rain-cloud rained upon it, and left every puddle in it bright and round like a dirham;
Sprinkling and pouring; so that the water flows upon it every evening, and is not cut off from it.
The fly enjoyed yet alone, and so it did not cease humming, as is the act of the singing drunkard;
Humming, while he rubs one foreleg against the other, as the striking on the flint of one, bent on the flint, and cut off as to his palm.
She passes her evenings and her mornings on the surface of a well-stuffed couch, while I pass my nights on the back of a bridled black horse.
And my couch is a saddle upon a horse big-boned in the leg, big in his flanks, great of girth.
Would a Shadanian she-camel cause me to arrive at her abode, who is cursed with an udder scanty of milk and cut off?5
After traveling all night, she is lashing her sides with her tail, and is strutting proudly, and she breaks up the mounds of earth she passes over with her foot with its sole, treading hard.
As if I in the evening am breaking the mounds of earth by means of an ostrich, very small as to the distance between its two feet, and earless.6
The young ostriches flock toward him, as the herds of Yamanian camels flock to a barbarous, unintelligible speaker.
They follow the crest of his head, as though it was a howdah on a large litter, tented for them.
He is small headed, who returns constantly to look after his eggs at Zil-'Ushairah; he is like a slave, with a long fur cloak and without ears.
She drank of the water of Duhruzain and then turned away, being disgusted, from the pools of stagnant water.7
And she swerves away with her right side from the fear of one, whistling in the evening, a big, ugly-headed one;8
From the fear of a cat, led at her side, every time she turned toward him, in anger, he met her with both claws and mouth.
She knelt down at the edge of the pool of Rada', and groaned as though she had knelt on a reed, broken, and emitting a cracking noise.
And the sweat on the back was as though it were oil or thick pitch, with which fire is lighted round the sides of a retort.
Her places of flexure were wetted with it and she lavishly poured of it, on a spreading forelock, short and well-bred.
The length of the journey left her a strong, well-built body, like a high palace, built with cement, and rising high; and feet like the supports of a firmly pitched tent.
And surely I recollected you, even when the lances were drinking my blood, and bright swords of Indian make were dripping with my blood.
I wished to kiss the swords, for verily they shone as bright as the flash of the foretooth of your smiling mouth.
If you lower your veil over yourself in front of me, of what use will it be? for, verily, I am expert in capturing the mailed horseman.
Praise me for the qualities which you know I possess, for, verily, when I am not ill-treated, I am gentle to associate with.
And if I am ill-treated, then, verily, my tyranny is severe, very bitter is the taste of it, as the taste of the colocynth.
And, verily, I have drunk wine after the midday heats have subsided, buying it with the bright stamped coin.
From a glass, yellow with the lines of the glass-cutter on it, which was accompanied by a white-stoppered bottle on the left-hand side.
And when I have drunk, verily, I am the squanderer of my property, and my honor is great, and is not sullied.9
And when I have become sober, I do not diminish in my generosity, and as you know, so are my qualities and my liberality.
And many a husband of a beautiful woman, I have left prostrate on the ground, with his shoulders hissing like the side of the mouth of one with a split lip.10
My two hands preceded him with a hasty blow, striking him before he could strike me; and with the drops of blood from a penetrating stroke, red like the color of Brazil wood.
Why did you not ask the horsemen, O daughter Malik! if you were ignorant, concerning what you did not know about my condition,
At a time when I never ceased to be in the saddle of a long striding, wounded, sturdy horse, against whom the warriors came in succession.
At one time he is detached to charge the enemy with the lance, and at another he joins the large host with their bows tightly strung.
He who was present in the battle will inform you that verily I rush into battle, but I abstain at the time of taking the booty.
I see spoils, which, if I want I would win; but my bashfulness and my magnanimity hold me back from them.
And many a fully armed one, whom the warriors shunned fighting with, neither a hastener in flight, nor a surrenderer;
My hands were generous to him by a quick point with a straightened spear, strong in the joints;
Inflicting a wound wide of its two sides, the sound of the flow of blood from it leads at night the prowling wolves, burning with hunger.
I rent his vesture with a rigid spear, for the noble one is not forbidden to the spears.
Then I left him a prey for the wild beasts, who seize him, and gnaw the beauty of his fingers and wrist.
And many a long, closely woven coat of mail, I have split open the links of it, with a sword, off one defending his rights, and renowned for bravery.
Whose hands are ready with gambling arrows when it is winter, a tearer-down of the signs of the wine-sellers, and one reproached for his extravagance.11
When he saw that I had descended from my horse and was intending killing him, he showed his teeth, but without smiling.12
My meeting with him was when the day spread out, and he was as if his fingers and his head were dyed with indigo.13
I pierced him with my spear, and then I set upon him with my Indian sword pure of steel, and keen.
A warrior, so stately in size as if his clothes were on a high tree: soft leather shoes are worn by him and he is not twinned.
Oh, how wonderful is the beauty of the doe of the hunt, to whom is she lawful? To me she is unlawful; would to God that she was not unlawful.14
So, I sent my female slave, and said to her, "Go, find out news of her and inform me."
She said, "I saw carelessness on the part of the enemies, and that the doe is possible to him who is shooting."
And it was as though she looked toward me with the neck of a doe, a fawn of the gazelles, pure and with a white upper lip.
I am informed that 'Amru is unthankful for my kindness while ingratitude is a cause of evil to the soul of the giver.15
And, verily, I remember the advice of my uncle, in the battle, when the two lips quiver from off the white teeth of the mouth,
In the thick of the battle, of which the warriors do not complain of the rigors, except with an unintelligible noise.
When they (i.e., my people) defended themselves with me against the spears of the enemy, I did not refrain from them (i.e., the spears) through cowardice, but the place of my advance had become too strait.
When I heard the cry of Murrah rise, and saw the two sons of Rabi'ah in the thick dust,
While the tribe of Muhallam were struggling under their banners, and death was under the banners of the tribe of Mulhallam {sic.},
I made sure that at the time of their encounter there would be a blow, which would make the heads fly from the bodies, as the bird flies from off her young ones sitting close.
When I saw the people, while their mass advanced, excite one another to fight, I turned against them without being reproached for any want of bravery.
They were calling 'Antarah, while the spears were as though they were well-ropes in the breast of Adham.
They were calling 'Antarah, while the swords were as though they were the flash of lightnings in a dark cloud.
They were calling 'Antarah, while the arrows were flying, as though they were a flight of locusts, hovering above watering places.
They were calling " O 'Antarah," while the coats of mail shone with close rings, shining as though they were the eyeballs of frogs floating in a wavy pond.
I did not cease charging them, (the enemy,) with the prominent part of his (horse's) throat and breast, until he became covered with a shirt of blood.
Then he turned on account of the falling of the spears on his breast, and complained to me with tears and whinnyings.
If he had known what conversation was, he would have complained with words, and verily he would have, had he known speech, talked with me.
And verily the speech of the horsemen, "Woe to you, 'Antarah, advance, and attack the enemy," cured my soul and removed its sickness.
While the horses sternly frowning were charging over the soft soil, being partly the long-bodied mares, and partly the long-bodied, well-bred horses.
My riding-camels are tractable, they go wherever I wish; while my intellect is my helper, and I drive it forward with a firm order.16
Verily, it lay beyond my power that I should visit you; so, know what you have known, and some of what you have not known.
The lances of the tribe of Bagheez intercepted you and the perpetrators of the war set aside those who did not perpetrate it.
And, verily, I turned the horse for the attack, while his neck was bleeding, until the horses began to shun me.
And verily I feared that I should die, while there has not yet been a turn for war against the two sons of Zamzam;17
The two revilers of my honor, while I did not revile them, and the threateners of my blood, when I did not see them.
There is no wonder should they do so, for I left their father a prey for the wild beasts and every large old vulture.
1 This is the Antar, or Antarah, who became the most noted of Arab heroes of romance.
2 That is, have the poets left any deficiency to be supplied? Have the poets of the former days left any poetry unsaid that the poets of the present day may say it?
3 When there was war between the two tribes, there was little use his wishing to marry her.
4 He knew that her tribe would have to move on, as there was no forage left for their camels.
5 A she-camel, upon whom this operation has been performed, is swifter, stronger, and fatter than others.
6 He compares the fleetness of the camel to that of an ostrich.
7 Referring to the she-camel.
8 The big, ugly-headed one is the whip with its heavy handle, or a cat.
9 That is, drunkenness makes him generous and not ill-tempered. The Arabs, before Mohammed, considered drinking with one's friends to show a generous disposition.
10 That is, the blood was spurting and hissing from a wound in his shoulder.
11 The richer Arabs gamble as to who shall kill his camel in the time of scarcity to distribute the flesh amongst the poor. The wine-sellers take down their signs when they have run out of liquor; the meaning of tearing down the signs being that he drinks up all their wine.
12 The allusion is to the poet's killing Zamzam, father of Husain and Harim, who insulted him. See close of the poem.
13 The dried blood was of an indigo color.
14 Here he again reverts to address his sweetheart. The Arabs may not marry with a woman of a tribe with whom they are at war.

16 That is, I carry out my plans with sagacity and determination.
17 I feared that I should die, before I had fought the two sons of Zamzam. 'Antarah killed their father during the war between the tribes of' Abs and Fazárah, wherein the latter were defeated with great loss. Harim and Husain, the two sons of Zamzam, were killed shortly afterward.
15 'Amru, the 'Absian, who insulted the poet.
Can i get the qasaid of hassan bin thabit as well please?
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