1. ما لابتداء صباباتي نهايات

    يا غاية ما لعشقي فيه غايات

    The beginning of my ardent longings has no end.

    O ultimate goal, my love for whom knows no bounds!

  2. في كل حي قتيل من هواك فكم

    اضحى لطرفك في الاحياء أموات

    In every quarter lies one slain by love of you—how many

    Are now dead among the living through your glance!

  3. ظبي من الترك من هندي ناظره

    في كل جارحة منا جراحات

    A gazelle of the Turks—from the Indian blade of his eye,

    There are wounds in every limb of ours.

  4. رشاقة الرمح من اعطافه وله

    باسهم اللحظ في العشاق رشقات

    The spear draws its slender grace from his form, and his are

    Volleys against lovers with the arrows of his glance.

  5. قد طال اعراضه عني فقلت له

    يا ظبي ما فيك كالظبي التفاتات

    He has long turned away from me, so I said to him:

    O gazelle, you lack a gazelle's backward glances!