MAY YOUR CLORY REMAIN
O my country, I planted, for your sake,
Poetry and flowers in my exile,
And I kept yelling all time you remain
In glory, and my heart was wrenched the while.
**
POETRY
… And poetry, it does not yet exist
Without me, it would not stir up at all
Man’s feeling, if my tears fell not on
The thirsty, quenching them with such a fall.
**
REMEMBER MY POETRY
How beautiful the evening with you,
You are the dearest people in my eyes,
My poetry caresses all of you,
Remember it; forget me, as time flies.
**
MY POETRY IS A PRAYER
In order that you understand my trend,
My poetry is like all mother’s prayer;
With every verse speaks years of my own life,
And every word bespeaks all mothers’ care.
**
BLOOD AND WOE
Your eyes are closed; you are lost in the night,
And your road knows injustice and hardship,
Wake up from this dream, Lebanon, wake up;
Of blood and woe you’ve suffered enough whip.
**
A FOREIGNER
Let us get rid of any foreigner
Who speaks resentment in our household, who
Darkened our sky with all his poison, and
The neighbour to kill neighbour, sad but true.
**
I TRIED
I tried to describe you but I could not,
I gathered my thoughts, many worlds I flew,
The genius which took as a friend
Deserted me, since I have painted you.
**
THEY SLAUGHTERED YOUR CHILDREN
O Cedar, you were so insulted by
Deceitful people without conscience, they
Pretended to be friends, and do believe,
They slaughtered children as in bed they lay.
**
O my country, I planted, for your sake,
Poetry and flowers in my exile,
And I kept yelling all time you remain
In glory, and my heart was wrenched the while.
**
POETRY
… And poetry, it does not yet exist
Without me, it would not stir up at all
Man’s feeling, if my tears fell not on
The thirsty, quenching them with such a fall.
**
REMEMBER MY POETRY
How beautiful the evening with you,
You are the dearest people in my eyes,
My poetry caresses all of you,
Remember it; forget me, as time flies.
**
MY POETRY IS A PRAYER
In order that you understand my trend,
My poetry is like all mother’s prayer;
With every verse speaks years of my own life,
And every word bespeaks all mothers’ care.
**
BLOOD AND WOE
Your eyes are closed; you are lost in the night,
And your road knows injustice and hardship,
Wake up from this dream, Lebanon, wake up;
Of blood and woe you’ve suffered enough whip.
**
A FOREIGNER
Let us get rid of any foreigner
Who speaks resentment in our household, who
Darkened our sky with all his poison, and
The neighbour to kill neighbour, sad but true.
**
I TRIED
I tried to describe you but I could not,
I gathered my thoughts, many worlds I flew,
The genius which took as a friend
Deserted me, since I have painted you.
**
THEY SLAUGHTERED YOUR CHILDREN
O Cedar, you were so insulted by
Deceitful people without conscience, they
Pretended to be friends, and do believe,
They slaughtered children as in bed they lay.
**
