ما ناحَ على الغُصُونِ في الدَّوْحِ حَمامْ

ما ناحَ على الغُصُونِ في الدَّوْحِ حَمامْ

إلّا ولقيتُ مِنْكَ بِالشَّوْقِ حِمامْ

إلّا ولقيتُ مِنْكَ بِالشَّوْقِ حِمامْ

Never have doves mourned on the branches in the grove

No dove has cooed in the palms in the valley

without my meeting death from you through longing.

Except I have met from you desire, dove

فَارْحَمْ دَنِفاً قَدْ زَادَهُ البُعْدُ سِقامْ

فَارْحَمْ دَنِفاً قَدْ زَادَهُ البُعْدُ سِقامْ

لا يَعْرِفُ مُذْ هَجَرْتَهُ طَعْمَ مَنامْ

لا يَعْرِفُ مُذْ هَجَرْتَهُ طَعْمَ مَنامْ

So pity a lovesick man whose illness separation has worsened;

So have mercy on one emaciated, whom distance has increased illness

since you forsook him, he has known no taste of sleep.

Who has not known, since you abandoned him, the taste of sleep