1. أميمة هلا تنجزين لوالهٍ

    عهوداً خفرتم يا أميم ذمامها

    Umaymah, will you not fulfill for a lovesick man

    promises whose sacred bond you broke, O Umaym?

  2. فديتك رفقاً بالوصال على شج

    معنىًّ تقاسي النفس منه حمامها

    May I be your ransom! Show kindness through union to a sorrowing man,

    tormented, his soul suffering death from that torment.

  3. لئن تحكها عينا ظباء تهامةٍ

    فعينيَ تحكي المعصرات انسجامها

    If indeed the eyes of Tihamah's gazelles resemble hers,

    then my eye mirrors the rain clouds in their streaming.

  4. متى لاح لي من جانب الغور بارقٌ

    يذكرني البرق اللموع ابتسامها

    Whenever a lightning flash gleams for me from the direction of al-Ghawr,

    the gleaming lightning reminds me of her smile.

  5. وةان ضربت بالابرقين خيامها

    فيا لاعدا صوب الغمام خيامها

    And if her tents are pitched at al-Abraqayn,

    then, oh, may the clouds' downpour never miss her tents!

  6. ورب ليال بتُّ ارعى نجومها

    الى ان جلا ضوء الصباح ظلامها

    And many nights I have spent watching their stars,

    until morning's light dispelled their darkness.

  7. ابيت بها نضو الصبابة والهاً

    اطارح شجواً بالحنين حمامها

    I spend those nights worn out by longing, distraught with love,

    trading laments with their doves in yearning cries.

  8. رعى اللَه اياماً بنجد تصرمت

    وان حاربت عيني بنجد منامها

    May God bless the days in Najd that have slipped away,

    even though my eye in Najd battled its sleep.