1. My heart was broken, though for nations I do not yearn
Ruins of an abode I frequented, brief was its term

2. A specter it was that brought us malady
When it visited, and left free of malady

3. No kindly phantom has visited you
Just your wish for it, giving in dreams

4. It slept with us, solacing and cheering us
Stingy with us, never conferring non-existence

5. Had it persisted we'd not have looked with our eyes
To another, but it did not persist

6. At dawn there stirred in me, whom I suffered from
Two doves on a branch of the acacia tree

7. Cooing with melodies that stir the heart of the lad
While he knows not what they mean, to him a puzzle

8. O you who saw the Arabic-worded poet aroused
With grief, and over him lamenting the non-Arab

9. Naught is stranger than my being slain without crime
When led to it - had it occurred, it would not have persisted

10. O you who betrayed my covenant when I trusted in him
You were to me honest, above suspicion

11. You tempted me into passion until when
My soul was open, I was duped by your rope

12. You believed the words of the slanderers and did not
Hear my defense or my words

13. A session the eye of bliss looked upon
At the repentant in shades of melody

14. Over it the sky of frivolity poured down
Raining, dripping, steaming from its downpour

15. To it, of delights, flowing robes clung
While harm was unveiled from it, it did not arise

16. Our cups remained bowing down to the goblet
As did the pagans bow down to the idol