1. Staying resident in my heart
Is a love between blond and black

2. And a passion not changed by nights
I kept with it happy eras of love

3. Let anyone who wished blame
Yearning, in tears and ardour intense

4. By your love right, my eyes never lost
Their tears, nor found my slumber repose

5. Your singing watered from Nejd’s slopes
Goblets by hands of lads poured forth

6. So how much solace was mine therein
With times as wished and as aspired

7. When my beloved fortune brought near
As we wished, far from estrangement dire

8. My love and I, when caught in disdain
Would relent in its charm like the rigid

9. When her glances strayed from my eyes
I had from her smile a gentle guide

10. Of the poets my tear in her love
Wandered its floods in every vale

11. Ransom you! Did you immolate other than all I own?
And of me did you leave other than my love?

12. How can my passion for you still hidden be
When your beauty captivating is so manifest to see