1. A pillar whom barriers tempt me to transcend,
Yet obstacles deter me, and I desist.

2. The market of affection excites me, my tears
Stream forever down the slopes of the covenants.

3. My tears have ceased after the abundance of their flow,
And I conditioned the eye of tears not to brim over.

4. I remain amidst the burning pain of a lovesickness
That singes me, and a persistent insomnia that does not sleep.

5. I live through the nights hoping they will clear up
At dawn, but it is not with the likes of them that dawn breaks.

6. If darkness makes me lonesome for the companion at the abode,
Then estrangement in my day is clearer still for my eye.

7. And I yearn so much for the stones, so perhaps
The phantom of the beloved may kindly smile through the peephole.

8. So if that gazelle is forbidden to me
And has prayed, what presents itself to me of the stones is enough.

9. O night that makes me suffer so much sorrow through it
I pour my laments, because of what comes loud from its clouds,

10. It remained reminding me of the nights between us
When we were together and the curved sword and the broad spear.

11. Those gazelles are not mere wild animals
That walk proudly with the pallid hearts and strut about.

12. The minds wander lost when they appear,
Wandering like the howdahs of the litter camels swaying.

13. The mind reasons and the sights aspire
When every noble one stands up lofty.

14. It plays and wounds in the daytime but indeed
It has remained wounding my deepest feelings when it wounds.

15. O you who torture me and suppose that I
Will endure it as long as time flows!

16. You overpower me and do not show mercy, for you have
A heart, but plated with iron.

17. You made me infatuated in this passion, so here I am
Qays, but saturated with separation.

18. Until when will you shun me, and the northern wind has almost
Wasted away, and the moisture of its branches exudes?

19. You have not been Job in patience, even if
The meaning of my name in Persian denotes opening up with patience.

20. That noble, brilliant, proud-natured one, whose
Morals overflow with the most wondrous perfume.

21. The mature-minded one whose morals
Are a sufficient cause of pride not to be outweighed.

22. The generous one whose outstanding merits
Open up in every being places of ascent to its heights.

23. The sincere-hearted one whose traces
Show clearly the beauty of what he conceals inside.

24. I praise him for his faithfulness, and indeed
My praise of him lies in his faithfulness, and does not praise.

25. A freeman whose heart blossomed open to affection
And whose words while praising blossom open.

26. He then is the one who if sustenance narrowed down
His heart would suffice me as ample sustenance.

27. And if his mount moved away from our land
He is the one regarding whom the pact never moves away.

28. No wonder if the rains poured down, for it is
The reed pen of the brilliant one dripping every sweet scent.

29. He allowed his talent free rein in the pacing of his poetry
To flow just as the noble white mare with the blaze flows.

30. You meet him going at full gallop in the horse races, taking care of his prestige,
Like the torrent inside the chest of the noble mare, gushing out.

31. And he plunges into the deep waters of the arts and picks out
Pearls with which the bosom of time is adorned.

32. The gardens of knowledge blossom through his lines
Where everything in them is lofty for the beholding eye.

33. Precious gems that translate the height of his station,
And they are perhaps clearer than any other praise.

34. O you whose estrangement time has permitted through its expanse,
By your estrangement, the face of time has become ugly.

35. It is inevitable that you be distant though you are its dear one,
For time distances in the land what it grants.

36. I took shelter in Suhail even if it gave me ample lodging,
But your abode in my heart is more ample.