مشاهدة

أوتار مبعثرة
ترجمة إنجليزية
شارك:
هَلْ فِي مُشَاهَدَتِي إِيَّاكِ صَاحِيَةًعَلَى سَرِيرِكِ مِثْلَ الطِّفْلِ مِنْ بَاسِ؟
أَلَا تُرِيدِينَ عَيْنِي أَنْ تَرَاكِ وَقَدْأَشْعَلْتِ قَلْبِي بِأَشْوَاقٍ وَإِحْسَاسِ
وَأَنْتِ أَشْهَى نَؤُومًا بَضَّةً سَبَحَتْفِي بَهْجَةِ الْحُلْمِ فِي وَجْدٍ وَإِنْعَاسِ
دَعِي عُيُونِي إِذَا مَا قُمْتِ تَحْضُنُكُمْإِنْ كَانَ جِسْمِيَ لَمْ يُرْزَقْ بِإِينَاسِ

Watching You

  1. Is there any harm1 in my watching you awake
    upon your bed, just like a child woken from sleep?
  2. Do you not want my eyes to see you, when you've set
    my heart ablaze with longings and with feelings that run deep?
  3. And you are most desired when drowsing2, soft and fair, afloat
    in the delight of a dream, in rapture and in sleep.
  4. When you rise, let my eyes hold you in their embrace3,
    if my body is not blessed with your companionship.

Notes

  1. Bās is baʾs, 'harm', with the glottal stop softened for the rhyme. The question is a playful plea for permission. ↩
  2. Naʾūm describes a woman who sleeps late and long, a sign in classical poetry of a pampered, leisured beauty who has servants to do her work. Baḍḍa means soft, fair and tender-skinned. ↩
  3. The verse asks that the eyes be allowed to do what the body may not: to embrace her by looking. 'You' in 'hold you' is in the plural (taḥḍunukum), a plural of respect and endearment for the beloved. Īnās is intimate companionship, the comfort of being close to someone. ↩

English translation prepared by artificial intelligence and reviewed against the Arabic for accuracy of meaning and rhetoric.