1. I melted my sorrows in a goblet of wine
And from its melting, my poetry and melodies were forged

2. I send it in the darkness of night
From the depths of my soul and my innermost conscience

3. O night, hearts have narrowed with my complaints
Yet they did not narrow with malice or grudges

4. So I come to complain to you about those who have shaken me
They do not realize the reasons for my abandonment

5. O night, my soul is thirsty as it wanders
Is there, in the galaxy, water for the thirsty?

6. O night, my soul is confused as it roams
Is there, in your stars, provision for the lost?

7. O night, my eyes are sleepless and tearful
Are there, in your wings, shreds of rest for the wakeful?

8. O night, enough - my chest is full of wounds
Open your affectionate chest for what remains of me

9. For through it, my soul found solace
Having deposited in it the secret of my sorrows and laments

10. O night, where are the loved ones? Where are even their ghosts?
For in the land of the loved ones, O night, you have kept me company

11. How often has my soul soared and poured out to a winged
Dream dancing in the light, joyous

12. A dream that flutters over her radiant smile
At night, and chirps like the morning birds at dawn

13. O cupbearer, do not slacken, serve up
The daughter of the date palm, for sobriety has made me miserable

14. Let it flow into a liver plundered by love, leaving a mark
For, by God, it has blinded my feelings and faith

15. For in its silvery light, so many images
Of different colors appeared before my eyes

16. And I began to review the past, which thrilled me
With sadness, and then with laments and tears

17. Until I poured over its memory a song
Inspired by my misery and fueled by my deprivation

18. O cupbearer, give me more, for the visions have called out to me
Intoxicated, without me even closing my eyes

19. My beloved danced happily in my cup
Where, where are the loved ones from the eyes of the drunk?

20. O neighbors of distance, the rain has greeted your dwellings
And your valley has flourished, O neighbors of distance

21. By God, my nights do not descend upon your homes
Except to spend time among my brethren

22. Who but my peers and confidantes in your valley’s arms
Will console me after losing me?

23. Who but my night companions and boon friends
Will lament my absence atop your fragrant roses?

24. By God, have the dreams of your valley been interpreted
As they reveled in the breezes of March and April?

25. Has her heart been stirred by the cooing of the doves within?
Has she interpreted them and wept for me after I was gone?

26. Have the moans of your water-wheels and her tears
In the valley reminded her of this woeful lover?

27. Have its butterflies fluttered around her cheeks
Caressing as she blossoms like your red roses?

28. O people of my nights, since you moved away from me
Neither the living are my living, nor the neighbors my neighbors

29. No, not even my soul is my soul, since it soared and poured out
To the inhabitants of the quarter, both settled and nomads

30. You moved away, and the fog of doubt loomed
In the horizons of my soul, with so much disbelief to tempt me

31. Were it not for the remnant of faith fluttering within me
Upon its light, my heart, in the night of sorrows

32. O dwellers of the palace, may your fortune smile upon you
May you last, as misfortune lasts for your opponent

33. If the people and homelands deny your merits
Neither the people are my people, nor the homelands my homelands

34. Among your gazelles, I had a roe deer I was fond of
A roe that was raised in the gardens of bliss

35. By God, He excelled in painting her image - enough -
I will return her to you safe from every devil

36. When my passions and blood paused before her
My songs and rhythms fell short

37. O God of love, be gentle with her worshipper
For the heart found no second object of worship

38. And thought, O people of my nights, was independent with her
While my soul, O altar of lovers, is my offering

39. A pure love grew in my breast and transcended
Can a love be eternal except one of the spirit?