لَم أَنسَ لَيلة إِذ مَرَّ الكَرى غاطا

لَم أَنسَ لَيلة إِذ مَرَّ الكَرى غاطا

بِناظِريَّ وَلَم أَعهدهما هَجَعا

بِناظِريَّ وَلَم أَعهدهما هَجَعا

I have not forgotten the night when slumber passed, sinking

I have not forgotten the night when fate passed

into my eyes, which I had never known to sleep.

Before my eyes which knew no sleep,

وَزارَني طَيفُهُ وَهَناً فَأَرَقني

وَزارَني طَيفُهُ وَهَناً فَأَرَقني

كَبارق بِخلال الودق قَد لَمَعا

كَبارق بِخلال الودق قَد لَمَعا

And his phantom visited me by night and made me sleepless,

And his ghost visited me, making me weak and wakeful

like a lightning flash that had gleamed amid the rain.

As lightning flashes through the branches of a tree.

فَما وَحَقك عَن ود زِيارتهُ

فَما وَحَقك عَن ود زِيارتهُ

لَكن لِيزجر طَرفي وَالسهاد مَعا

لَكن لِيزجر طَرفي وَالسهاد مَعا

So, by your honor, his visit was not out of affection,

It was not to renew his friendship that he came,

but to rebuke my eye and sleeplessness together.

But to chide my eyes and reproach their sleep.