I desire of my days to reunite me with that

Urīdu min zamanī ḏā anna yuballiġanī

ﻧﻮﻉ ﺍﻟﺸﻌﺮ: مأخوذا من شعر "بِمَ التَعَلُّلُ لا أَهلٌ وَلا وَطَنُ" على بحر البسيط
ﺍﻟﺸﺎﻋﺮ: أَبُو اَلطَّيِّبْ أَحْمَدْ بْنْ اَلْحُسَيْنْ اَلْجَعْفِي اَلْكَنَدِيَّ اَلْكُوفِيِّ المعروف بِالْمُتَنَبِّي
منطقته: حلب
ﻋﺼﺮ: الدولة الحمدانبة

أُريدُ مِن زَمَني ذا أَن يُبَلِّغَني
ما لَيسَ يَبلُغُهُ مِن نَفسِهِ الزَمَنُ

لا تَلقَ دَهرَكَ إِلّا غَيرَ مُكتَرِثٍ
مادامَ يَصحَبُ فيهِ روحَكَ البَدَنُ

فَما يَدومُ سُرورٌ ما سُرِرتَ بِهِ
وَلا يَرُدُّ عَلَيكَ الفائِتَ الحَزَنُ

Type of poem: taken from the poem "Bima t-Taʕallulu lā ahlun wa-lā waṭanu" in metre al-Basīṭ
Name of poet: Abū ṭ-Ṭayyib Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Jaʕfarī al-Kindī al-Kūfī, known as al-Mutanabbī[1]
Region of poet: Aleppo
Era: Ḥamdanid dynasty

I desire of my days[2] to reunite me with that
which time of itself can never obtain[3]

Do not meet your fate except with indifference
as long as your soul still accompanies your body

For what has pleased you in the past has not lasted
nor may sorrow return what has passed