1. النار في خديه تَتَّقِدُ

    والماء في خديه يَطَّرِدُ

    Fire blazes in his cheeks,

    and water flows ceaselessly in his cheeks.

  2. ضدان قد جُمِعا كأنهما

    دمعي يسيح ولوعتي تقِدُ

    Two opposites have been joined, as though they were

    my flowing tears and my burning anguish.

  3. يا ناقد الدنيا وأنتَ أخٌ

    للحسن لا ما أنت مُنْتقِدُ

    O critic of the world, you who are a brother

    to beauty—no, you are no faultfinder.

  4. يا من أُرِقَّ وحُلَّ جوهرُه

    فانحلَّ حتى كاد ينعقدُ

    O you whose substance was made delicate and dissolved,

    then dissolved until it nearly congealed.