1. Alas! He who loves ardently, if sleep oppresses him,
The lightning of Najd flashes while he yearns for it

2. If slumber does not keep him awake and away from him
Your phantom, O daughter of the crescent, keeps him awake

3. On a long night when the star seeks its dawn
Neither has the dawn preceded nor the star followed it

4. Alas for a day at the riding camels' watering place
Time has spared it while it is crowded with those departing

5. And every different looker has been hidden from us
With a howdah of broken wood on his shoulders

6. Nor did the warbling birds warn of the intent
And the goad's holder threw down his stick and departed

7. And I have one whose chastity is his watcher
I flirt with him at times and at times embrace him

8. And he fills my hearing with talk the like of his
On my throat he threaded the necklace, its arranger

9. So when it was finished I increased nothing but remembering him
Every day at Hima its wandering one flashes