1. دَواءُ قلبي في الهوى دائي

    أَعْيا عِلاجاتِ الأَطباءِ

    My heart’s cure in love is my malady;

    it has defied the physicians’ treatments.

  2. حَوَيتُ أَسْقامَ الوَرى مُفْرداً

    وحازها النَّاسُ بأَسماءِ

    I alone have gathered mankind’s ailments,

    and people possess them under various names.

  3. لَوْ شِئْتُ أَنْ أَمشي لِفَرْطِ الضَّنى

    مشيتُ مِن سُقْمي عَلَى الماءِ

    If I wished to walk, so extreme is my wasting,

    I would walk upon water because of my sickness.