1. قَلَّ في الهَوى حيَلي

    يا كَثيرَةَ المَلَلِ

    My stratagems in love are few,

    O you so easily bored!

  2. كَم أَبيتُ مُمتَرياً

    خِلفَ دَمعيَ الهَطِلِ

    How often I spend the night milking

    the teat of my streaming tears!

  3. رُبَّ عَبرَةٍ نَضَحَتْ

    وَردَ خَدِّكِ الخَجِلِ

    Many a tear has moistened

    the rose of your blushing cheek.

  4. لَيتَني عَلى عَجَلٍ

    أَجتَنيهِ بِالقُبَلِ

    Would that I could, in haste,

    pluck it with kisses!

  5. فالعَذولُ مُنتَظِرٌ

    أَن تُخَيِّبي أَمَلي

    For the reproacher is waiting

    for you to dash my hope.

  6. وَالمُحِبُّ في كَمَدٍ

    وَالعَذولُ في جَذَلِ

    And the lover is in anguish,

    and the reproacher in delight.

  7. فَالهَوى وأَيسرُه

    ما تَرينَ مِن وَجَلِي

    For love—whose lightest part

    is the fear you see in me—

  8. هَل يَخِفُّ مَحمِلُهُ

    يا ثَقيلَةَ الكَفَلِ

    can its burden grow light,

    O heavy-haunched one?