1. من الهوى آه

    والصب اواه

    Ah, for love!

    And the lovesick lover sighs.

  2. افنى الهوى كلي

    والقلب يرضاه

    Love has consumed all of me,

    And the heart accepts it.

  3. ويلاه من ريم

    في القلب مثواه

    Alas for me, for a gazelle

    Whose dwelling is in the heart!

  4. لم يشتغل فكري

    واللب لولاه

    My thoughts would not be occupied,

    Nor my mind, were it not for him.

  5. يطيب لي معنى

    يفيد ذكراه

    A meaning delights me

    That calls him to mind.

  6. والعين لم تبصر

    والله الاه

    And the eye has seen none—

    By God—but him.

  7. اقام في سرى

    والروح معناه

    He has dwelt in my inmost self,

    And the soul is his essence.

  8. وثغره الالمى

    يا ما احيلاه

    And his dark-lipped mouth—

    Oh, how sweet it is!

  9. سبحان من فضلا

    بالحسن حلاه

    Glory to Him who, out of grace,

    Adorned him with beauty.

  10. كم طرفه ادمى

    فؤاد مضناه

    How often his glance has made bleed

    The heart of his languishing lover!

  11. متى ترى عيني

    سنا محياه

    When will my eye behold

    The radiance of his face,

  12. ويشتفى العاني

    بلثمه فاه

    And the captive find healing

    By kissing his mouth?

  13. كأنه بدر

    في برج مجلاه

    As though he were a full moon

    In the zodiac mansion where he appears.

  14. أذاب مضناه

    دلال علياه

    His languishing lover was melted

    By his lofty coquetry.

  15. كم اوقعت فيه

    النبال عيناه

    How often has he been struck

    By arrows from his two eyes!

  16. يا من غدت روحي

    بالوجد ترعاه

    O you whom my soul has come

    To cherish in passionate longing,

  17. ومن ارى قصدي

    في الكون رؤياه

    And you—my aim, I deem,

    In all existence is to behold you.

  18. لو زار في ليل

    بالنوم مولاه

    If, one night, he were visited

    In sleep by his lord,

  19. كفاه معناه

    أحيته لقياه

    His essence would suffice him;

    Meeting him would revive him.

  20. كم مرة دارت

    بنا حمياه

    How often has it gone round

    Among us—his heady wine!

  21. من ثغره كم من

    كأس شربناه

    From his mouth, how many

    Cups we have drunk!

  22. وسطر اشواق

    منه قراناه

    And a line of longing

    From him we have read!

  23. وكم تهتكنا

    لما رأيناه

    And how often we cast off restraint

    When we saw him!

  24. وعاذل باغ

    قد ساء مسراه

    And an unjust reproacher,

    Whose night journey had gone awry,

  25. يلومنا فيه

    لما عشقناه

    Blames us over him

    Because we fell in love with him.

  26. قلنا له يا من

    طبعا هجرناه

    We said to him: O you

    Whom we shunned by nature,

  27. خلك من قوم

    بخلهم تاهوا

    Leave alone a people

    Lost in rapture over their beloved.

  28. مالمت لو تدري

    كالقوم حسناه

    You would not have blamed us, had you known

    His beauty as those people do.

  29. فحسنه يحيي

    باللطف موتاه

    For his beauty brings to life

    Through gentleness, his dead.

  30. الله من لطف

    لاشك سواه

    God, out of gentleness,

    Surely fashioned him.

  31. آه لمعناه

    آه لمغناه

    Ah, for his essence!

    Ah, for his dwelling!

  32. آه لمجلاه

    آه لمرآه

    Ah, for his manifestation!

    Ah, for the sight of him!

  33. هواه افناني

    من الهوى آه

    Love of him has consumed me.

    Ah, for love!