1. My heart boils with the heat of separation,
Will I ever attain the spirit of union?

2. My eyelids are short like the days of your company,
And my nights as long as the days of separation.

3. The ugliest thing for me is to blame the beloved,
And I have no beautiful patience left.

4. We cried on the day of parting when
An envious backbiter pitied us.

5. There is no eye but it is a helping eye,
No cheek but has a trail of tears.

6. They left while we stayed behind. Eyes
Of the sincere women circle around.

7. Each has a cheek contradicting his course,
Inclining it towards the beloved and it inclines.

8. May God protect the days gone by when we were together,
And not tend us in separation to depart.

9. The night the beloved came and the
North wind blew as if the ropes of tents were being rolled up.

10. My body and the breeze met and his glance -
So each by analogy is invalid.

11. When does a lover bid farewell to his beloved?
That is nothing but a killer and a killed!

12. Little love for me is much and describing it -
Though the passionate at length describes it - is little.

13. When will my heart be healed of passion by nearness
And the fires of love and longing be extinguished?

14. Alas for my anguish in love from the agony of grief!
Is there anyone to guide me to good solace?

15. I reckon the nights of separation visit their hardship,
Their overflowing lava has deputies in my resolute heart.

16. I have been abased when I used to be a dignified youth,
And every dignified person is humble in love.

17. Are those black eyes whose glances
Are sharp swords with no remnants, still there?

18. Did they throb arrows from hard eyebrows
That penetrate the secret thoughts of hearts?