لاحظته فتغيَّرت

لاحظته فتغيَّرت

لحظاته غضباً لحربي

لحظاته غضباً لحربي

I glanced at him, and they changed—

I noticed him, so I changed

His glances, in anger, to wage war on me.

His moments to wrath for my war

فاستلَّ من أجفانه

فاستلَّ من أجفانه

سيفاً وأغمده بقلبي

سيفاً وأغمده بقلبي

Then he drew from his eyelids

So he drew from his eyelids

A sword, and sheathed it in my heart.

A sword and sheathed it in my heart

يا من رأى في دهره

يا من رأى في دهره

قلباً غدا غمداً لعضبِ

قلباً غدا غمداً لعضبِ

Oh, who has seen in his lifetime

O you who saw in his time

A heart become a scabbard for a sharp sword?

A heart that became a sheath for anger