1. The ardent lover finds little respite
As passion stirs restlessly within

2. Does the guide know he directs
My heart wherever it is led?

3. My heart, you follow the misguided -
To whom do you aspire?

4. Parting was not what first pained me
Nor was it the first tear I shed

5. I used to weep in days of union
Where now are the raven and dove?

6. In my inner self lies a sadness
No tears can find a path to reach

7. I never denied virtue in tears
Should they fall where ashes lie

8. With her tears, my eyelids narrow
Yet my heart for its dweller won't be confined

9. Some I called friend break their vow
Though my heart's bond to them was strong

10. We claimed to be true friends
Yet the truthful among them were rare

11. Our names and nicknames alike
But meanings between us set apart

12. I was created to irk the envious
Though time can appear cordial

13. If fate tilted to one side
The arrow above rights its course

14.
I continued to sip from hearts

15. Dawn vying with twilight within
What confusion befalls a people

16. When one like me is in their midst?
No wonder the errant stray

17. Or the elegant Arab frolics
He saunters with poise

18. And glances with coyness
But wonder takes hold if he

19. Disparages a noble people
I deserted kings and their courts

20. And ruins now host my company
Ambiguous things I pretended

21. But gained only trinkets and trifles
I witnessed tribulation below grandeur

22. Where even friend avoids friend
If the night unveiled its horrors

23. No ghost would tread its domain
Time must trip for an instant

24. To query prisoner and free
Only the generous steed disregards

25. The caprice of time
Sons of the horseman atop their steeds

26. Frighten the foe as they desire
I am not one whose concern

27. Is a dawn that ails or eve that weeps
The cheeks of my darling say

28. While the Babylonian says in the cheek, "Go down"
Had he pursued great deeds

29. He wouldn't have busied with mellow woes
But my bosom friend is one

30. Whose ways are gently refined
His soft speech enchants the eyes

31. Like the crescent gleaming bright
His gaze left my lovers drunk

32. Never to awaken, nor were they to wake
I overpowered my heart against its love

33. And it became ransom for the precious beloved
The loveliest blossoms reveal a charm

34. Her youth imbued with noblest of graces
You are the pinnacle of place, most noble

35. And none knows glory but the eminent
You rose so high, where can the branches be

36. When roots hit the celestial dome?
O honor of rule, religion, clarity and virtue

37. Each suits you, embellishes and adorns
O you whose pact loyalty fulfills

38. When rights seek you as their haven
The clouds resent your call

39. With their lightning nothing but muted rumblings
Remembering you leaves the envious morose

40. Worthy of suppressing your enemies
Eyes return deprived of sights

41. To their edges, hopeless, dimmed
For you exceeded imaginings' reach

42. How can any aspiration attain you?
These are your fingers, habitually

43. Turning with virtues, subtly
If restrained, they play with eyes

44. As elegant lightning flickers bright
If let loose, they rain on the poor

45. Until markets of praise erect and stand
Your right hand is but the clouds

46. Wherein lies rain and lightning strike
Accounts confound in your presence

47. When you gift generously, precise
O you time's people denounce

48. If you display your greatness, intense
O you who revives the dark night

49. Your nature is noble and face serene
You left off visiting the tomb

50. So hearts recoiled, aloof
You glanced away when time to leave drew near

51. My cheek drowned in my overflowing tears
For you are a sun - when glimpsed

52. Eyes convulse at your dazzling sight
I tasked my eyes to bear the length

53. Of your vision, beyond what they can stand
When you unfurled the banner of kinship

54. My eyes attained you, though the time was brief
O sun whose absence the lands do not accept

55. Whose loftiness no flags can match
Who never abandons the celestial dome

56. With dawn after every sunset
May God grant you a companion

57. And God's protection - the best company
To God you are generous company

58. And a piece of my heart journeys with you
What my heart holds for you

59. Would hurry to you, if swords cleared the way
I am but a specter of imagination

60. When the blaze of passion fans longing
It is deterred when nearing the abode

61. And the towering tomb draws it close
It was only time leading

62. My heart to you, only to hinder
Take these words like fine margins

63. Upon which the exquisite text elevates
If the turns of time delay them from you

64. The vintage wine only grows more potent
You remain, despite the wicked's evil