1. This is a torment with no respite
At the slightest my heart is shattered

2. Does not the lover contemplate
What has befallen him and not contemplate

3. What he feared has come upon him
From you though he did not fear it before

4. Is he not to be found in a paradise
For the union though aggrieved to be consoled

5. They cast him into their forgetfulness
That he is not even mentioned in disdain

6. By my father Hilal, he who saw him
Gained reward when he magnified

7. How many a heart fasted from sins
Then for it dawned and so it broke fast

8. Oh woe to his questioner whom
Oh would that he be made to flow away

9. Oh you who make me hope with your promises
Do you think me with misfortune to be content

10. Hasten for I have a term and you
Will come with it though not made late

11. For me in you is a planting would that
Before my plucking it had borne fruit

12. The night knows that I
In the night for the moons do stay up

13. Is this nail from the glint of night
Passing or is it hammered in fixed

14. A eye was delighted with it resembling
With a herd of gazelles scattered about

15. And increased were its numbers
While the stars of my tears from it are more

16. Stumbling in its setting
And the tear in it stumbled over

17. Would that the dawn in the horizons
Had frowned or crept in

18. Arise oh dove perhaps if
You cooed to the trees you would bewitch

19. The lips of blossoms that shined
And cheeks of roses that blushed

20. The gentle breeze so it loosened
From its sleeves what had been pinned

21. The river is elated
Its flowers like a jewel-studded sword