1. أهتزّ قربك كالزمان قصيدة

    يا ليت قلبك كان يدرك ما بيا

    Beside you I quiver like time—a poem.

    Oh, if only your heart could understand what is within me!

  2. وتنضدين قصيدتي كمشاعري

    في حين تنتفض الحروف أغانيا

    And you arrange my poem as you do my feelings,

    While the letters quiver into songs.

  3. تجري أناملك الرشيقة فوقها

    جري النسائم منعشات باليا

    Your slender fingertips glide over it,

    Like breezes flowing, refreshing my mind.

  4. يا نبع إلهامي المنوّر دائما

    ماذا سكبت بها غنى ومعانيا

    O ever-radiant wellspring of my inspiration,

    What richness and meanings you have poured into it,

  5. في كل لفظ فوق ما حملته

    ووهبته فصفا وجاوز روحيا

    Into every word, beyond what I had put into it

    And bestowed upon it—so it grew pure and surpassed my soul!

  6. أتلو سطوري بعدما دبجتها

    نبضات قلبي المرقصات خياليا

    I recite my lines after they were adorned by

    My heartbeats, which set my imagination dancing:

  7. الباسمات وكنّ قبل بواكيا

    والآسيات وكن قبل دواميا

    Smiling, though once they were weeping,

    And healing, though once they were bleeding,

  8. والعاطرات من الجنان وما أرى

    إلاك ينفحها العبير الغاليا

    And fragrant from the gardens—and I see none

    But you bestowing precious perfume upon them.

  9. والشاعرات وكن أمس جوامدا

    والمعجزات المخلدات الفانيا

    And sentient, though yesterday they were inanimate,

    And miraculous, immortalizing the perishable,

  10. والراويات من الرحيق عواطفا

    نشوى وأحلاما تجدد ماضيا

    And quenching with nectar emotions

    Intoxicated, and dreams that renew the past.

  11. هذي قصيدتي التي أنكرتها

    من قبل عادت لي أحبّ رجائيا

    This is my poem, which I disowned

    Before; it has returned to me as my dearest hope.