1. وصَلَ الجِسمُ منذ بِنتُم سقَامَه

    وجَفَا الجَفن مذ هَجَرتُم منامَه

    The body has embraced its sickness since you departed.

    And the eyelid has shunned its sleep since you deserted me.

  2. فارحموا عاشقاً عَصَى النصح في الحبِّ

    عليكم لما أطاع غرامَه

    So pity a lover who defied counsel in love

    for you, when he obeyed his passion.

  3. لا تظنوا أني سلوتُ فأين الصبر

    من مُهجَةٍ بكم مُستَهامَه

    Do not think I have ceased to pine—for where is patience

    in a heart made love-mad by you?

  4. بين قلبي وبين صَبري عنكم

    مثلُ ما بين مسمَعي والملامَه

    Between my heart and my patience in your absence

    lies the same distance as between my ear and reproach.

  5. غير أني إذا ذكرتُ زمان الوَصل

    قال المُنَى عليَّ الغَرَامَهن

    Yet when I recall the time of union,

    hope says, 'The penalty is mine to pay' [last word uncertain].

  6. أطمَعَتني الآمالُ إذ كل ما اشتَقتُ

    زماناً يثعِيدُ لي أيَّامَه

    Hopes have enticed me, for whenever I longed for

    a time, its days would be restored to me [verb uncertain].