وريم روض لم ادم سواه

هيمني وحقه هواه

And a garden gazelle—I have kept company with none but him.

Love for him has enthralled me—by his sacred worth.

غار له بدر السماء مذ بدا

ولاح في ناسوته سناه

The full moon of heaven envied him when he appeared,

and his radiance shone in his human form.

حل بقلبي شخصه وحاله

بناظري الله ما احلاه

His person dwells in my heart, and his state

is before my eyes—God, how lovely he is!

قولوا له يا اهل ودي رحمة

اماله عطف على مضناه

Tell him, my dear friends: 'Have mercy!'

Has he no compassion for his love-wasted one?

يبرأ سقمي ريقه وعنوه

كم جرحت مهيجتي عيناه

His saliva and his yielding heal my sickness;

how often his eyes have wounded my little heart!

وردي طول الليل من وجدي له

آه يليه يا هذيم آه

My litany all night, from longing for him:

'Ah,' followed, O Hudhaym, by another 'ah.'

مليك حسن والقلوب اصبحت

لعزه باسرها اسراه

A king of beauty; hearts have become

his captives, one and all, through his might.

ومفردات الحسن فيه اجتمعت

باهرة سبحان من سواه

And beauty's separate graces have gathered in him,

dazzling—glory to the One who fashioned him!

تختلف الآرام في رياضها

والعين لم تنظر بها الاه

Gazelles come and go in their meadows,

yet the eye has seen in them none but him.

مولاه بالجمال قد اعزه

وانني أي والهوى مولاه

His Lord has honored him with beauty,

and I—yes, by love—am his servant.

ورب ليل قد قطعت باكيا

حتى الصباح لم انم دجاه

And many a night have I spent weeping,

till morning, sleepless through its darkness.

ذكرني ايام وصل انقضت

مع حبيب آه ما اجفاه

It recalled to me days of union now gone,

with a beloved—ah, how unkind he is!

اعلل القلب بها وعلتي

مزعجة دواؤها لقياه

I console my heart with them; yet my ailment

is grievous—its cure is meeting him.

يطيب روحي ويداوي سقمي

كاس زكي النشر من لماه

My spirit is refreshed and my sickness healed

by a sweet-scented cup from his dusky lips.

عسى بعيد البعد بقرب المدى

وعل عيني لحظة تراه

May the far-distant one be within reach,

and may my eye behold him for a moment.