1. وجرحك لي جرح جبار فلا تلم

    ولكن جرح الحب غير جبار

    And the wound you inflict on me calls for no redress, so do not blame me;

    But the wound of love is not without redress.

  2. وقد صارت الخيلان وسط بياضه

    كنيلوفر حفته روض بهار

    And the moles amid his fair skin have become

    Like water lilies encircled by meadows of oxeye daisies.

  3. وكم قال لي من مت وجداً بحبه

    مقالة محلول المقالة زاري

    How often has he, for love of whom I died of longing, said to me

    The words of a scoffer whose argument is unsound,

  4. وقد كثرت مني إليه مطالب

    الح عليه تارةً وإداري

    When my appeals to him had grown many,

    As I pressed him at times and coaxed him at others:

  5. أما في التوائي ما يبرد غلةً

    ويذهب شوقاً في ضلوعك ساري

    “Is there nothing in my evasiveness to cool your burning thirst

    And dispel the longing coursing through your ribs?”

  6. فقلت له لو كان ذلك لم تكن

    عداوة جارٍ في الأنام لجار

    So I said to him, “If that were so, there would be no

    Enmity between one neighbor and another among humankind.

  7. وقد تتراءى العسكران لدى الوغى

    وبينهما للموت سبلٌ بوار

    Yet two armies may come within sight of each other in battle,

    While death’s paths of ruin lie between them.”