1. أنا التارك الأوطان والنازح الذي

    تنبع ركب العشق في زي قائف

    I am the forsaker of homelands, the wanderer who

    Tracked love's caravan in a tracker's guise.

  2. وما زلت اطوي نفنفا بعد نفنف

    كأني مخلوق لطي النفانف

    And I have kept traversing wilderness after wilderness,

    As though I were created to traverse the wastes.

  3. فلا تعذلوني ان رأيتم كتابتي

    بكل مكان حله كل طائف

    So do not reproach me if you see my writing

    In every place where any wayfarer has stayed.

  4. لعل الذي باينت عيشي لبينه

    وافنيت فيه تالدي قبل طارفي

    Perhaps the one for whose parting I forsook my life,

    And for whom I exhausted my long-held wealth before my new gains,

  5. تكلفه الايام ارضا حللتها

    الا انما الايام طرق التكالف

    Will be driven by the days to a land where I have stayed—

    Indeed, the days are but paths of hardship.

  6. فيملى عليّ الدهر ما قد كتبته

    فيعطف تحوي غصن تلك المعاطف

    Then Time dictates to me what I have written,

    And the bough of those curving forms bends toward me.