1. ألم يأنِ لطيف ان يعطفا

    وأن يطرُقَ الهائمَ المُدنفا

    Has the time not come for a phantom to show compassion,

    and visit the love-crazed, ailing man by night?

  2. جفا بعد ما كان لي واصلاَ

    وخلَّف عنديَ ما خلَّفا

    He shunned me after once being close to me,

    and left with me what he left behind.

  3. أما تعطِفَنَّ على خاضع

    لديك يناجيك مستعطفا

    Will you not have compassion on one bowed low

    before you, whispering to you, pleading for compassion?

  4. إذا كتبت يدُه أحرفآ

    إليك محا دمعُهُ أحرُفا

    Whenever his hand writes letters

    to you, his tears wipe letters away.

  5. ولو كنتُ أملك غَربَ الدموع

    منعتُ جفوني أن تذرفا

    And if I could control the flow of tears,

    I would keep my eyelids from shedding them,

  6. غراماً بأشكال نار الغرام

    وما عذر صَبٍّ بكى واشتفى

    out of passion for the forms of passion's fire—

    and what excuse has a lover who wept and found relief?