1. رَدَدْتُ فيَّ بِذاكَ المُلْتَقَى نَفَسا

    وكَنتُ في مَأْتَمٍ صَيَّرتَهُ عُرُسَا

    At that meeting I recovered my breath.

    And I was at a funeral that you turned into a wedding.

  2. وَرُحْتُ أَتلُو أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ وَوجهُكَ لي

    قَدْ بُشَّ لا وَجهَ مَن أَتلُو له عَبَسا

    And I went on reciting “Did We not expand,” while your face toward me

    Had brightened—not the face of one to whom I recite “He frowned.”

  3. وكانَ قَلبيَ يَشكُو طُولَ وَحشَتهِ

    صَدْرِي وَقَد قَرَّ في صَدْري وقد أنِسَا

    And my heart had been lamenting its long loneliness

    To my breast; now it has settled in my breast and found companionship.

  4. وراقَهُ لُؤْلُؤٌ رَطْبٌ َيفيضُ بهِ

    نَحْرٌ يَرَى كُلَّ نَحْرٍ دُونَهُ يَبِسَا

    And moist pearls delighted it, flowing from

    A throat that sees every other throat as parched beside it.

  5. وإنْ نَظَرْتُ لِرَوْضٍ فَوْقَ مُهْرَقهِ

    فانظُرْ لِغَيْثِ حَياً من كفّهِ انبجَسا

    And if I gaze at a garden upon his page,

    Then look at the life-giving rain that gushed from his palm.