1. وَآثارِ وَصلٍ في هَواكِ حَفِظتُها

    تَحِيّاتِ رَيحانٍ وَعَضّاتِ تُفّاحِ

    And tokens of union in my love for you I have kept:

    greetings of basil and bite-marks on apples,

  2. وَكُتبٍ لِطافٍ تُربُها المِسكُ أُدرِجَت

    عَلى وَصفِ أَحزانٍ وَتَعذيبِ أَرواحِ

    and delicate letters, whose dust is musk, folded up

    around descriptions of sorrows and the torment of souls.

  3. يُخَلنَ تَعاويذاً بِجَنبي كَأَنَّني

    أُمَسُّ بِخَبلٍ في مَسايَ وَإِصباحي

    They seem to be amulets at my side, as though I

    were afflicted with madness, evening and morning.