1. يا راحة الأَرواح

    طابَت بِكُم أَفراحي

    O solace of souls,

    My joys have grown sweet through you.

  2. أَنواركم لَو لاحَت

    تُغني عَن المِصباح

    If your lights shone forth,

    They would make a lamp needless.

  3. رقوا لِدَمعي الجاري

    في ظُلمة الأَسحار

    Have pity on my flowing tears

    In the darkness of the predawn hours.

  4. بِاللَه يا خماري

    عَجل بِهَذا الراح

    By God, O my wine-seller,

    Hurry with this wine.

  5. يا لَيلة في الشعب

    قَد راقَ فيها شربي

    O night in the ravine,

    My drinking there was truly sweet;

  6. رَوحت فيها قَلبي

    بِالعَنبر الفياح

    There I refreshed my heart

    With fragrant ambergris,

  7. إِذ كانَ فيها جاري

    بَدر غَدا في داري

    When my neighbor there was

    A full moon, now within my home,

  8. يَلهو عَلى المزمار

    وَالبُلبل الصَياح

    Making merry to the flute

    And the loud-singing nightingale.

  9. يا ظَبي مَهلاً مَهلا

    حَملت قَلبي حملا

    O gazelle, gently, gently!

    You have burdened my heart so heavily;

  10. لَم يَبقَ مني إِلا

    روح بِلا أَشباح

    Nothing remains of me but

    A soul without bodily form.

  11. بِاللَه داو جرحي

    مِن قامة كَالرُمح

    By God, heal my wound,

    From a stature like a spear,

  12. أَو طَلعة كَالصُبح

    تَجني عَلى الأَرواح

    Or a countenance like dawn,

    That does harm to souls.

  13. يا مخجل الغُزلان

    هَيجت لي أَشجاني

    O you who put gazelles to shame,

    You have stirred my sorrows.

  14. بِاللَه زر أَوطاني

    وَاترك حَديث اللاحي

    By God, visit my dwellings,

    And disregard the reproacher's talk.

  15. مَن لي بِذاك الثغر

    أَحظى بِهِ في عُمري

    Who will grant me that mouth,

    That I may delight in it in my lifetime?

  16. قَد طابَ مِنهُ سُكري

    في الوَرد وَالقداح

    My drunkenness from it has grown sweet

    Amid roses and goblets.

  17. يا ذا البَريق الساري

    هَيجت مني ناري

    O you whose radiance travels by night,

    You have stirred the fire within me.

  18. فَالدَّمع مني جاري

    وَالقَلب في ضحضاح

    So my tears are flowing,

    And my heart lies in a shallow pool.

  19. يا سائق الأَظعان

    بَلغ لَهُم أَشجاني

    O driver of the caravans,

    Convey my sorrows to them,

  20. وَاذكر لأَهل البان

    أَني قَتيل الراح

    And tell those dwelling by the ban trees

    That I am slain by wine.

  21. ريح سَرَت مِن نَجد

    قَد هَيجت لي وَجدي

    A wind traveled by night from Najd;

    It has stirred my ardent longing.

  22. لَو كانَ خلي عِندي

    ما ضَره يا صاح

    If my beloved were beside me,

    What harm would it do him, my friend?

  23. دَمعي جَرى كَالسَيل

    مِن بارق في اللَيل

    My tears ran like a torrent,

    From a lightning flash in the night,

  24. أَو عاذل بِالقَول

    يَهذي إِلى الاصباح

    Or a reproacher with his words,

    Babbling on until dawn.