أَينَ مِنّي الصَّبْر عَن وَجهكَ أَينْ

أَينَ مِنّي الصَّبْر عَن وَجهكَ أَينْ

بين قلبي وسُلُوِّي عنك بَينْ

بين قلبي وسُلُوِّي عنك بَينْ

Where can I find patience apart from your face—where?

Where is my patience from your face, where

Between my heart and forgetting you lies a gulf.

Between my heart and my solace from you, between

واهِنُ العَزْمِ إِذا اِستَنجَدته

واهِنُ العَزْمِ إِذا اِستَنجَدته

فتَّرَتْهُ فتراتُ المُقْلَتَيْنْ

فتَّرَتْهُ فتراتُ المُقْلَتَيْنْ

Weak in resolve whenever I call on it for help,

Weak is determination when I seek its help

The languor of those two eyes has weakened it.

So it was weakened by the blinks of the two eyelids

صارَ مِن أَعوانِ عَينَيك كَذا

صارَ مِن أَعوانِ عَينَيك كَذا

كلُّ قلْبٍ في الهوى عَوْناً لِعَيْنْ

كلُّ قلْبٍ في الهوى عَوْناً لِعَيْنْ

It has become one of your two eyes’ allies; likewise,

Your eyes' allies became thus

Every heart in love becomes an ally to an eye.

Every heart in love an ally of the eye

أيُّها الرَّاقد عندي سَهَرٌ

أيُّها الرَّاقد عندي سَهَرٌ

يُكْمِد الواشي ويُبْكي العاذِلَيْنْ

يُكْمِد الواشي ويُبْكي العاذِلَيْنْ

O sleeper, mine is a sleeplessness

O you who sleeps near me, my vigil

That grieves the talebearer and makes the two reproachers weep.

Torments the watcher and makes the abandoned weep

مِتُّ سُكْراً أَفَمِنْ كأسَيْ طِلا

مِتُّ سُكْراً أَفَمِنْ كأسَيْ طِلا

رَاقَ لي رِيقُكَ أَمْ مِن شَفَتَينْ

رَاقَ لي رِيقُكَ أَمْ مِن شَفَتَينْ

I died of intoxication—was it from two cups of wine

Dead drunk, so was it from my cup

That your saliva tasted sweet to me, or from two lips?

Or did your saliva flow to me or from two lips

أَنا لا أَصبِرُ عَمَّن وَجهُهُ

أَنا لا أَصبِرُ عَمَّن وَجهُهُ

فَلَقٌ مُبْتَسمٌ في غَسَقَيْنْ

فَلَقٌ مُبْتَسمٌ في غَسَقَيْنْ

I cannot bear separation from one whose face

I cannot be patient with one whose face

Is a smiling dawn amid two darknesses.

Is a crescent smiling amidst two cheeks

تطْلُعُ الشَّمْسُ لنا من شَفَقٍ

تطْلُعُ الشَّمْسُ لنا من شَفَقٍ

وهو يبدو طالعاً من شَفَقَينْ

وهو يبدو طالعاً من شَفَقَينْ

The sun rises for us from a twilight glow,

The sun rises for us from the horizon

While he appears, rising from two twilight glows.

While he appears rising from two horizons

قُلت لِلكاهِن حينَ اِختَلَست

قُلت لِلكاهِن حينَ اِختَلَست

عَينُهُ عَيني فَجر الحَين حَينْ

عَينُهُ عَيني فَجر الحَين حَينْ

I said to the soothsayer, when his eye stole

I said to the priest when he secretly glanced

My eye—and one doom brought another:

At my eyes at dawn today when

قمرَ العَقربِ خوّفْتَ فَمَنْ

قمرَ العَقربِ خوّفْتَ فَمَنْ

مُنْقِذِي من قمرٍ في عَقْرَبَينْ

مُنْقِذِي من قمرٍ في عَقْرَبَينْ

You warned of the moon in Scorpio—who, then,

You frightened Scorpio's moon so who

Will save me from a moon amid two scorpions?

Will save me from a moon between two scorpion stings