1. Stop here whatever horses may stop,
Let us shed tears suppressed till now.

2. Unless you show me patience - for I see
My patience gone, my sternest demand.

3. My eyelids, when the caravan of love
Departed, toys of tears then were they,

4. Urging me on insistently to weep,
Like a protesting victim, hurt, complaining.

5. Stages where no tears' riders ever halted,
Except from hearts forsaken and alone.

6. My tears so loved their traces it was like
They owed those traces flowing tears.

7. They harbored love for the trace till it was as
If the trace itself but going nowhere.

8. Of resignation my composure's proof is robbed
If my patience my witness is, like one absent.

9. When we stopped in the quarter of the living, no
Words we uttered - brows did we communicate.

10. With implied, not spoken, love, we whispered of love
Far sweeter than whispers of liars' wishes.

11. Ladies of high station brought low forelocks for me,
With sweet consent in wrath climbing tribulation's stairs.

12. When their heavy tresses flow, arrogantly they don
Them over their shoulders with the sand grouse.

13. And when they plaited them for us, they worked against us
As the fingers that betray in not writing words told them.

14. They set for us the Pleiades of their dwellings, guides
When we stray into darkness' confused labyrinths;

15. Suns, when appearing, give light to our darkness,
With dawns in that gloom, no settings.

16. Whenever their caravan returns from separation
I find it, joining it from every side.

17. I made my eyelids litter where they stepped,
Lest strokes of fate should touch them.

18. I held them fast with yearning in the playground
Where hands of time with games played havoc with their games.

19. A long night - when I compared it
To seeing her I love, of slender shape -

20. Was like the heartbeat, like a furtive lover's kiss,
A glance of caution, barring of a spying eye.

21. Its planets wept for it as though the gloom
Were bereaved of it or the loved ones parted.

22. My anguish cheers me when a planet appears
As if it shared my pain with other planets.

23. I shall alight from the sea of nights in channels
If its waves restrict me, my channels barred.

24. I shall drag the train of resolve in a land of ambition
To a giver who gives his wealth to the gifted;

25. To Him shade of munificence incessantly swears
It is itself suspended for every seeker.

26. It is the sword - but not so wrathful
If destiny spares it striking every striker.

27. When lances contend with it, souls of death
Quarrel in the souls of armed squadrons.

28. The blades of its horses dye the hands of heroes
With red earth - the blood of hosts of victims.

29. And how often it splashed carnage, its impact raining
Death on ranks of lancers and archers!

30. When you wish help that yields to no misfortune,
Cry "O God!" - O victorious sword!