أدرى من نام عن الأرق

أو دمع مقاه المستبق

Does one who sleeps know of sleeplessness,

Or the racing tears from his eyes?

هيهات فما الخالي كشح

ببكا وأسى غرق حرق

Far from it! The carefree are not like one [grief-stricken],

Drowned in weeping and sorrow, burning.

ليل سهر والصبح بكا

وبدونهما تلك الحدق

Night is wakefulness, and morning weeping,

And those eyes are without them both.

هجر ونوى منك اجتمعا

وكواحدة ضرب العنق

Desertion and separation from you have come together,

And beheading is like just one of them.

فارحم صبا قد صب الدم

ع على الخدين كما العلق

So pity a lovesick man who has poured tears

Upon his cheeks, like clotted blood.

من حب ولم يرزق حبا

ممن قد حب فذاك شقى

Whoever has loved but has not been granted love

By the one he has loved—that man is wretched.

الليل يطول على من لم

يطعم نوماً طول الغسق

The night grows long for one who has not

Tasted sleep throughout the darkness.

حمد النوام منامهم

وشكى السهران من الأرق

The sleepers praised their slumber,

And the wakeful one complained of sleeplessness.

ياليل فني عمري شهراً

فمتى يفنى ما منك بقى

O night, a month of my life has wasted away;

So when will what remains of you end?

من لي بالنوم لعل الط

يف به يبدو للمعتنق

Who will grant me sleep? Perhaps the apparition

Will appear in it to one who would embrace it.