1. أَما يَستَفِيقُ القَلبُ إِلاّ انبَرى لَهُ

    تَوَهُّمُ صَيفٍ مِن سُعادِ وَمَربَعِ

    Does the heart ever recover without being assailed

    by a vision of Su'ad's summer camp and spring abode?

  2. أُخادِعُ عَن أَطلالِها العَينُ إِنَّهُ

    مَتَى تَعرِفِ الأَطلالَ عَينُك تَدمَعِ

    I try to distract my eye from her ruins, for

    whenever your eye recognizes the ruins, it weeps.

  3. عَهِدتُ بِها وَحشاً عَلَيها بَرَاقِعٌ

    وَهذِى وُحُوشٌ أصبَحَت لَم تَبَرقَعِ

    I once knew wild creatures there with veils upon them;

    but these are wild creatures that now go unveiled.