1. A melody that commanded my heart to turn away
And hide in passing clouds of drizzle

2. Doing the deed of drink, though I've not reckoned
Among the gentle deeds a moment and a sip

3. Leaving me to ask people what is best
Of stars and medicines for people

4. Seeking the outcome of my affair
Aiding me is he who can cure my worries

5. Seeking refuge from love in vows
Clinging to every friend with books

6. If talismans are for love
When I complete them, my love will be complete

7. Look, O house of my passion, can you feel
A way there, from it to the house of my beloved?

8. Serve me a red drink like fire in water
Pure like light from solid and poured

9. And if you mix it, beware
It casts sparks of love's embers

10. Know it is the draft that makes my cares
Recede, not the draft most potent

11. And make your talk today about Al-Hussein bin Wahb
Who calls the dew and is called to it

12. His call is answered and he answers too
Unlike words, as his love grows constantly

13. A visitor, from his rain no fugitive
What stubborn nature, all easy

14. With steady will, each hardship simple
And the heights between deed and word

15. Between disliked and desirable
You craved honors out of love, and craved me

16. How long you blaze and blaze!
Naught but good came of your turning away

17. A lover's play cannot be hidden
How many a beloved turned from me

18. Yet my heart never turned away
O Abu Talib, take my love with yours

19. And add to me, for I'm growing up
I'll give you only what you have

20. Of virtue, would that I'd fully reached my fill!