1. My gazelle words to the graceful gazelle
You harbored betrayal though you feigned otherwise
١. أَغَزالُ قولي لِلغَزالِ الأَحوَرِ
أَضمَرتَ غَدراً لَيسَ عَنكَ بِمُضمَرِ
2. Go away, I won't grieve for you, perhaps
I endured your fickleness with patience you could not endure
٢. إِذهَب فَلَم أَجزَع عَلَيكَ وَرُبَّما
صَبَّرتُ عَنكَ حَشاشَةً لَم تَصبِرِ
3. Oh frequent visitor led astray by his passions
You weren't the first to come who didn't stay
٣. يا وارِداً لَجَّت بِهِ هَفَواتُهُ
ما كُنتَ أَوَّلَ وارِدٍ لَم يَصدُرِ
4. The days had their way with you after aloofness
As worries had their way with a lover who didn't succeed
٤. ظَفِرَت بِكَ الأَيّامُ بَعدَ تَمَنُّعٍ
ظَفَرَ الهُمومِ بِعاشِقٍ لَم يَظفَرِ
5. Oh would that I knew, did you lose all reason
Or are these the days of piercing jewels?
٥. يا لَيتَ شِعري ضَلَّ عَقلُكَ كُلُّهُ
أَم هَذِهِ أَيّامُ ثَقبِ الجَوهَرِ