يا غزال الشعب الجفول كفاني

صرت من حسرتي عليك كفاني

O skittish gazelle of the ravine, I have had enough!

From my anguish over you, I have become like one dying.

ذبت من لهفة الغرام ولوعا

وكوتني لواعج الهجران

I melted from love's yearning, passionately enamored,

And the burning pangs of abandonment seared me.

ودموعي تسح تسح سحاب

وفؤادي يفور بالنيران

And my tears pour, pour like clouds,

And my heart seethes with flames.

وأنا بين عزوتي ورفاقي

كغريب ناء عن الوطان

And I, among my kin and companions,

Am like a stranger far from home.

جرحتني نبال طرفك جرحاً

قاتلاً هد لي قوى جسماني

The arrows of your glance wounded me with a wound—

A mortal wound that shattered my body's strength.

غمرتني من غمز عينك سمر

تتلوى كالبيض ضمن جناني

Dark spears from the wink of your eye overwhelmed me;

They writhe like bright swords within my heart.

وإذا ملت مالت الروح مني

عن سماها وأظلمت أكواني

And when you lean, my soul inclines

Away from its heaven, and my worlds grow dark.

فلعيني البكا عليك وقلبي

قالب الحزن حيطة الخفقان

So my eye weeps for you, and my heart

Is sorrow's mold, an enclosure of throbbing.

عزفت منك ما أقاسي البرايا

ودرى كل مبصر بك شاني

All creation has learned what I endure from you,

And everyone who sees knew my plight because of you.

فضحت لوعتي حقيقة حالي

وضميري أذاعه كتماني

My burning anguish exposed the truth of my condition,

And my concealment revealed my innermost secret.

طول آهي الواهي لأجلك قد قص

ر باعي وهمتي ولساني

My long, feeble sighing for your sake has shortened

My reach, my resolve, and my tongue.

قبل بلواي فيك ما كنت أدرى

ما اشتكى الناس من صروف الزمان

Before my ordeal because of you, I did not know

What people lamented of time's vicissitudes.

خذ لجيد أتلفت فيه وجودي

من دموعي قلائد المرجان

Take, for a neck on which I squandered my being,

Necklaces of coral from my tears.

وإذا شفها الهوى وتدلت

في خدودي خذهما عقود جمان

And when passion thins them and they dangle

On my cheeks, take them both as necklaces of pearls.

ما رأينا من قبل شخصك ظبيا

قمرياً بصورة الإنسان

Before you, we had never seen a gazelle

Moonlike, in human form.

كم أسلب الشعور سلسلت شعرا

لدغه فوق لدغة الثعبان

How often I lose my senses! You have strung tresses in chains,

Whose sting surpasses a serpent's bite.

جمعت فيك قدرة اللَه شأناً

فيه تمكين سطوة الإيمان

God's power has gathered within you a quality

In which the might of faith is made firm.

يا ظريف الطباع قربت بعدت

لعمري الضدان لا يجمعان

O you of charming ways, you drew near and went far;

By my life, the two opposites cannot be joined.

فاترك البغي والصدود وصلني

واخش بلوى عواقب العدوان

So abandon oppression and rejection, and join me,

And fear the ordeal of aggression's consequences.

رب يومٍ تلقى به العبد مولى

هكذا شان دولة الديان

On many a day, you find the slave a master;

Such is the nature of the Requiter's dominion.

وعليك السلام في كل آن

وزمان من حضرة الإحسان

And peace be upon you at every moment

And every age, from the Presence of Beneficence.