1. In Paris I lamented my loneliness,
In Baghdad I lamented my age.

2. Today I suffer from exile,
More miserably in my own country.

3. A stranger am I, and when the sword
Called for help, my pen aided.

4. A stranger am I, and when
The spirits vanished, my pain conversed.

5. In the meadows of glory and passion I have roots
With slender branches and beautiful poetry.

6. All I have said is sound opinion
Whoever competes with me has no chance.

7. A flowing pen and poetry that plays,
And a heart filled with meanings that gush.

8. I am, if I wish, a ruling conscience,
I am, if I cast, a sharpened sword.

9. The world sang my poetry and existence
So the negligent escaped the fetters of negligence.

10. O you who recline in the garden of eternity
Prostrate yourselves to poetry, for prostration is deserved.

11. O night, O Layla, O night
I am exposed, I am exposed

12. And in the pleasure houses I learned
O night, O Layla, O night

13. In every place I loved
From every garden I plucked

14. O night, O Layla, O night
Tormented by beauty

15. Sleepless from imagination
And love in every case

16. Is the unlawful, the lawful
O night, O Layla, O night

17. O Lord of Spring
Rekindles my passion

18. And fervor in my chest
Rekindles my infatuation

19. O night, O Layla, O night
Last night I worried

20. And from my tears I drank
Do not ask how I was

21. For with my tears I drenched the East
O night, O Layla, O night

22. A body molded of light
As waves mold flames

23. He sang my poetry and it delighted me
While the does have songs and melodies

24. I hide my love and passion for him
Love's creed is secrecy and concealment

25. Kissing him was but flirting
I said this but some words were lies

26. I kissed him and in his being
The kisses of a lover ignited passions

27. Tomorrow I will repay what I borrowed before
With it the soul's disciple is generous, sometimes stingy

28. O night, O Layla, O night