1. قَد صَفا ماء النَعيمِ

    في مَحيّاهُ الوَسيم

    The water of bliss has grown clear

    in his handsome face.

  2. قُربَهُ جَنة عَدني

    وَتَنائِبِهِ جَحيمي

    His nearness is my Garden of Eden,

    and his distance is my hell.

  3. إِن رَنى تَيّم بِالأَل

    حاظَ غُزلان الصَريم

    If he gazes, his glances enthrall

    the gazelles of the thicket.

  4. أَو تَثنى أَخجل الأَغ

    صان بِالقَد القَويم

    Or if he sways, he shames the boughs

    with his upright form.

  5. أَو تَغنى بُلبل البَلبا

    ل بِالشَدو الرَخيم

    Or if he sings, he confounds the nightingale

    with his mellow song.

  6. وَإِذا قامَ يُدير الرا

    ح في اللَيل البَهيم

    And when he rises to pass the wine

    in the pitch-dark night,

  7. كَشف اللَيل سَناه

    وَاِنجَلى لَيل الهُموم

    his radiance dispels the night,

    and the night of cares clears away.

  8. يَقرَع الجام بَدر

    مِنهُ في ثَغر نَظيم

    A full moon taps the goblet,

    from within his mouth of well-set teeth.

  9. فَإِذا عَبَّ مِن الرا

    ح اِحتَسى لُب النَديم

    So when he quaffs the wine,

    he sips away his drinking companion's wits.

  10. يا حَياتي وَحَمامي

    وَحَميمي وَغَريمي

    O my life and my death,

    and my close friend and my adversary,

  11. لِمَ لا تَرثي لِصَب

    مَن تَجنيك سَقيم

    why do you not pity a lovesick man,

    ailing from your cruelty,

  12. رَقَّ حَتّى قَد حَكى رق

    ة أَنفاس النَسيم

    grown so frail that he resembles

    the softness of the breeze's breaths?