أليس عجيباً أن يكون جبينه

أليس عجيباً أن يكون جبينه

صباحاً ولم ينشق غير فؤادي

صباحاً ولم ينشق غير فؤادي

Is it not strange that his brow should be

Is it not strange that his brow

a dawn, yet nothing has split open but my heart;

Should be, in the morning, split by none but my heart

وأن له طرفاً لنفثة سحره

وأن له طرفاً لنفثة سحره

نفوذٌ ولم تنفع رقائي رقادي

نفوذٌ ولم تنفع رقائي رقادي

and that he has a glance whose magic breath

And that his glances should entrance and bewitch

has piercing power, yet my charms have not helped my sleep;

With influence, while my talismans and charms avail me naught

وأن له في جفنه نصف كسرةٍ

وأن له في جفنه نصف كسرةٍ

وما صح مني فيه غير ودادي

وما صح مني فيه غير ودادي

and that his eyelid has half a languid droop,

And that in his eyelid there should be half a fracture

yet nothing in me remains sound but my love for him?

And naught in it should be healed save my affection