1. جَوانِحُنا شَوقاً إِلَيكُم جَوانِحُ

    وَأَلبابُنا تَصبو لَكُم وَالجَوارِحُ

    Our ribs incline toward you in longing;

    and our minds and limbs yearn for you.

  2. وَمَغناكُمُ مَغنى الهَوى يا سَقى الهَوى

    وَأَيّامُهُ غادٍ مِنَ المُزنِ رائِحُ

    And your dwelling is love's abode—ah, may love be watered,

    and its days, by a raincloud coming morning and evening.

  3. وَخصّ الصِبا حَيثُ الشَبيبَةُ أَيكَةٌ

    بِأَغصانِها وُرقُ الأَماني صَوادِحُ

    And may it favor youth, where youthfulness is a thicket,

    on whose branches the gray doves of wishes sing.

  4. وَحَيثُ الحِمى رَوضٌ أُطارِحُ أَهلَهُ

    أَحاديث أَشجاني بِهَم وَتُطارِحُ

    And where the sanctuary is a garden, I share with its people

    tales of my longing for them; and answering in kind are

  5. مَعاهِدُ أَحبابي وَمَربى مَآربي

    وَأَوطانُ أَوطاري إِذ العَيشُ صالِحُ

    my loved ones' haunts and the nursery of my aims,

    and the homelands of my desires, when life was good;

  6. وَإِذ أَنا مِن حُسّانةِ الجيد ناعِماً

    أُغادِي الصِبا فَرطَ الهَوى وَأُراوِحُ

    and when, blissful with a fair-necked beauty,

    I visited youth morning and evening, impelled by love's excess.

  7. مَتى اِبتَسَمَت عَن ذي لَمىً قُلتُ مُنشِداً

    بِأَدنى اِبتِسام مِنك تَحيا القَرائِحُ

    Whenever she smiled, revealing dusky lips, I would recite:

    At the slightest smile from you, poetic gifts come alive.