1. أعادَتكَ في حالِ الهَوى عَودةالفتَن

    ولا مَلجأٌ من ذاكَ إلا لِمَن ومَن

    The return of temptations has brought you back into a state of love.

    And there is no refuge from that—save for whom, and whom?

  2. فَفِيمَ تَعقَّبتَ التَّصابي ألم تكُن

    كمَن لم يكُن قِدماً إلى سَكنٍ سَكَن

    So why did you pursue youthful dalliance? Were you not

    Like one who had never before found repose with a beloved?

  3. أفِق إنَّها لَيسَت بأوّل سَكرَةٍ

    وفي مِثلها مِن قَبلها كنتَ مُرتَهَن

    Come to your senses: this is not your first spell of intoxication;

    And before this, you were held captive in one like it.

  4. ومُنصِفةِ الأجفانِ في قسمةِ الضَّنَى

    لها أوفرُ الأقسامِ مِنه إِذا امتُحِن

    And a woman whose eyelids deal fairly in apportioning lovesickness—

    On examination, hers is the largest share of it.

  5. تَظنُّ بها من شدَّة التَّرف الهَوى

    كأنِّي وإيَّاها شَريكانِ في الشَّجَن

    You suppose her in love, from her extreme delicacy,

    As though she and I were partners in sorrow.

  6. وإنَّ دمُوعاً سافَرت بحدِيثِنا

    تعمُّ بهِ ما عَمَّه العارِضُ الهَتِن

    And indeed, tears that have traveled bearing our tale,

    Spreading it over all that the pouring raincloud has covered,

  7. لتُغنِيكمُ عن كشفِ حالي وحالِها

    وفي دُونِها ما ألحَق السِّرَ بالعَلَن

    Surely spare you the need to uncover my condition and hers;

    And even less than these has brought the secret into the open.

  8. تكلَّفَ ذكري قطعَ كلِّ مَفازةٍ

    فلو كانَ مَجداً قلتُ ما قاله الحسَن

    Word of me has undertaken to cross every desert;

    So if it were glory, I would say what al-Hasan said.