1. يا تاركين للمحب أدمعاً

    قد وقع الحزن له إطلاقها

    O you who have left the lover tears,

    sorrow has already authorized their release for him.

  2. والذاريات من دموعي خلفةً

    ما نقضت أيدي النوى ميثاقها

    By my tears that scatter one after another,

    the hands of separation have not broken their covenant.

  3. لو حنّت الورق حنيني نحوكم

    لمزقت من أسفٍ أطواقها

    Had the grey doves yearned for you as I yearn,

    they would have torn their neck-rings in grief.

  4. ولو غدت تملي على الأغصان ما

    في كبدي لأحرقت أوراقها

    And had they begun dictating to the branches what

    lies in my liver, they would have burned their leaves.