اضرني جفاك يا فلان

ومهجتي رصعها السنان

Your coldness has harmed me, O so-and-so.

And the spearhead has pierced my heart.

بحق عينيك ترفق بفتى

يشهد في نحوله العيان

For your eyes' sake, be gentle with a youth

To whose wasting sight itself bears witness.

وان خفا حالي فتدري انه

لكل خاف مكتم عنوان

And if my state is hidden, you know that

Every hidden, concealed thing has a sign.

هيمني هواك حتى ذهل العق

ل وحتى خرس اللسان

Love of you enthralled me till the mind grew dazed,

And till the tongue fell mute.

فللغرام يا حبيب دهشة

وللهوى باهله سلطان

For passion, O beloved, brings bewilderment,

And love holds dominion over its people.

قنك افنى الهجر طوق كله

آماله من ناره امان

Your slave—estrangement has exhausted all his strength;

His hopes are for safety from its fire.

لم تذق الكرى عليك عينه

وانت ساه طرفك الوسنان

His eye has tasted no slumber on your account,

While you are heedless, your gaze heavy with sleep.

ببأس اذ تبدي الجفا وانما

تطمعه اخلاقك الحسان

He is in distress when you show coldness; yet only

Your lovely qualities give him hope.

متى ذكرت وبرزت معرضا

تشب في احشائه نيران

Whenever you are mentioned and appear, turning away,

Fires blaze in his entrails.

ديباجة الفؤاد منه كلها

لشخصك الباهر طيلسان

The brocade of his heart, all of it,

Is a mantle for your dazzling form.

لك بسره ولب روحه

وفي فجاج قلبه ديوان

For you, in his inmost self and his soul's core,

And in the passes of his heart, there is a book of verse.

بعدك يا ريم محا وجوده

متى بقرب يسمح الزمان

Your absence, O gazelle, has erased his being.

When will time grant nearness?

يا محنة المحب قد اقلقه

كما تريد حسنك نفتان

O lover's torment, he has been disquieted,

As you wish, by your [bewitching] beauty.

اشاع سيل الدمع سره وقد

اماته وحقك الكتمان

The flood of tears revealed his secret, though

Concealment had slain him—I swear by you.

هل ينفع الكتمان يا حب لمن

عما يكن الدمع ترجمان

Does concealment help, O beloved, one for whom

Tears interpret what he conceals?