1. The morning of parting shed pearls of dew
From her eyelids and poured rubies of tears in the basin.

2. She cast off her necklaces out of grief, as though
The leaves were stripped from the branches of the ban tree.

3. The caller to departure made her distraught, without searching,
So he greeted her farewell with apples from Lebanon.

4. She has covered the meadows with violets
As if she had plucked roses with hyacinths of Susa.

5. A night I walked in, with its stars,
Flowers of a garden or lamps of eyelids.

6. As if the Pleiades in it were a cup of wine
And the Gemini leaned tipsily.

7. Life is but a gloomy night,
With Ahmad ibn Suleiman its shining sun.