1. I remembered while my heart is captive to remembrance
On a night of union that passed from my life

2. Shorter than my endurance and patience
It softened, almost to the point of flowing

3. As if it was created from my poetry
It exceeds in my view a thousand thousand months

4. It is but an instant in the cheek of time
I exposed through it its full moon with my full moon

5. And through it her excuse and my excuse became clear
And in it I sold my sobriety for my drunkenness

6. From the slim waist, slender of waist
More beautiful than Salma and Umm ‘Amr

7. With languid eyes, exhausted from languor
She has been ransomed from lethal poison by sorcery

8. By Allah, if my matter were up to me
I would have cast the lid of her eye in splints

9. Perhaps it would mend me from my breakage
And I would spend the night hiding the light of that smile

10. Lest I startle my night with my dawn
O night that went too far in blessing me

11. It passed and my gratitude to it did not pass
Today I was derided for the best of my hoards

12. So may Allah increase its reward from me