1. كتبتُ ابن عبادٍ إليك وحالتي

    كحال صدٍ طَمَت عليه مناهِلُه

    I have written to you, Ibn ʿAbbād, and my condition

    is like that of a thirsty man whose watering places have overflowed upon him.

  2. وما تركت كفّاك في خصاصة

    ولكنَّ شوقاً قد غلت بي مراجله

    Your hands have not left me in want,

    but longing's cauldrons have boiled within me.

  3. أبيت إذا أجريت ذكرك منشداً

    كأنك تعطيه الذي أنت سائله

    I spend the night, whenever I mention you, reciting:

    “As though you were giving him what you ask of him.”