1. من لمن ذاب غراما

    يا كرام الحيِّ

    Who is there for one who has melted with love,

    O noble ones of the quarter?

  2. دنفٌ شبَّ اضطراما

    والتنائي كي

    A lovesick man, blazing with ardor,

    and separation is a searing brand.

  3. آه من هجران حبي

    راعني معناه

    Ah, my beloved's desertion!

    Its meaning has shaken me

  4. وطوى في نشر قلبي

    من جفاه آه

    and folded into my heart's unfolding

    a sigh at his estrangement.

  5. أنا في بعدي وقربي

    لم أرم إلاه

    I, in my distance and my nearness,

    have sought none but him.

  6. منطوٍ عني بسلبي

    ناشرٌ للطي

    Folded away from me through my effacement,

    unfolding what is folded.

  7. لاح لي يجلى بسري

    كالضحى الوضاح

    He shone upon me, unveiled in my secret heart,

    like the radiant morning light.

  8. فاعذروني إنَّ بدري

    يشغف الأرواح

    So pardon me, for my full moon

    enraptures souls.

  9. غبت عن سري وجهري

    هائماً مذ لاح

    I lost awareness of my hidden and outward self,

    wandering in love ever since he shone.

  10. وعفا جسمي لفكري

    ما لجسمي فيَّ

    And my body wasted away from brooding;

    what place has my body within me?

  11. كلَّما قام بعقلي

    حسنه الفتان

    Whenever there arose in my mind

    his bewitching beauty,

  12. همت ممحوّاً بكُلي

    وافر الأشجان

    I wandered in love, wholly effaced,

    full of sorrows,

  13. ذاهلاً عن مجد أهلي

    بل وعن خلان

    heedless of my family's glory,

    nay, of dear friends as well,

  14. مازجاً فرعي بأصلي

    كرخه بالريِّ

    mingling my branch with my root,

    his Karkh with al-Rayy.

  15. يا لمعنى منه أعني

    عبده المشتاق

    Oh, how a meaning from him has wearied

    his yearning servant,

  16. وجمال منه أضني

    زمرةَ العشاق

    and a beauty from him has wasted

    the company of lovers!

  17. يا لرقٍّ فيه جنا

    ومن الأشواق

    Oh, what bondage, in which he gathered fruit!

    And out of longing,

  18. كلما ناجاه حنا

    ميّتاً في حيِّ

    whenever he communed with him, he bowed,

    dead within a living one.