1. If the phantom of fantasy would pass by
Nay, it passed through the enclosure of my chest

2. And if the beloved wanted not
To slight me, I'd not enjoy his abandonment

3. He blames me in his love, he who does not
Know that blame excites more love

4. How many a night he visited in its darkness
And was under the gloom, my full moon

5. Bestowing me with the redness of a cheek
A frequented spring, and white lips

6. Combining for me the drunkenness of a glance
And the drunkenness of saliva and the drunkenness of wine

7. And the drunkenness of words and drunkenness of lips
And drunkenness of a kiss and drunkenness of a throat

8. Until the dawn came borrowing light
From the face of the round white sun

9. The eloquent, hopeful, desired one
The glorious, perfect, charming one

10. The highest, most high, powerful in destruction
Awake, manifesting gifts overflowing

11. He is wronged by one who evaluates his
Oath by the dripping of drops of rain

12. Better than Joseph and more generous
Than the Nile’s bestowal on Egypt

13. Before whom the sun would stand still were it to see him
And the sun runs towards its resting-place

14. My lord, you are my raiment
And my harbor from fickle time

15. You it is who protected the train of my honor
From the hands of others after the sound of my poetry

16. He upon whom every mote of generosity is obligated
Not to fulfill his vow

17. I have for you, no doubt, a sacrifice for the house
And a sacrifice for poetry

18. O most eloquent of beings
In prose, verse, and verse-like prose

19. Who competes with you in superiority
Were he even Al-Ma’arri

20. He composes panegyric about you
Set up like pearls upon a string

21. I am excused, I who am the likes of me
If my argument for loving you falls short

22. Other than that if he saw something
He would come up with idle talk and nonsense

23. And that is not falsehood I uttered
And it is impossible, and you know

24. You are my hope in every aim
And you alone are my treasure among men

25. By God, never did my supposition miss regarding you
Nor did my complaint escape you

26. Were it not for you I would not have composed poetry
Nor would my thoughts have excelled among the villages

27. No maiden satisfies me if proposed to
Other than you, even with a grand dowry

28. And I submit and nestle vocationaly
With every fast and rainfall