1. إِلى أَيِّ ضَنىً أَفضى

    هَوى أَجفانِكَ المَرضى

    To what wasting illness has it led—

    this love of your languid eyelids?

  2. رَقَدتُ اللَيل لا تُربي

    لِمَن لا يَعرِفُ الغَمضا

    I slept through the night; you do not increase [sense unclear]

    for one who knows no slumber.

  3. كَذا مَن فَرَضَ الوَجدَ

    عَلى عُشّاقِهِ فَرضا

    Such is he who imposed passion

    upon his lovers as a duty.

  4. بِنَفسي جابِرِ قاضٍ

    وَوَجدي فيهِ ما يُقتَضى

    My life for an overbearing judge,

    and my passion for him is what is exacted;

  5. وَبَدرٌ أَصبَحَ البَدرُ

    لَدَيهِ يَلثمُ الأَرضا

    and a full moon—the moon itself has come

    to kiss the ground before him;

  6. وَمَن أَرضى بِقَتلي في

    هَواهُ وَهوَ لا يَرضى

    and one—I am content to be slain for

    love of him, though he is not content.