1. لم أألُ صبراً عنك يا حسن الظبا

    وعن الأغن محمد الغريدِ

    I could muster no patience apart from you, O Hasan, beauty of the gazelles,

    Nor apart from sweet-voiced Muhammad, the songbird.

  2. أبعدتما عني فصوَّح مربعي

    عودا بجدكما ليورق عودي

    You both went far from me, and my spring pasture withered.

    Return, by your grandsire, so that my branch may leaf again.

  3. ما أنتما إلا كقرطي غادة

    يتذبذبان على خدود الخود

    You two are but like a maiden's pair of earrings,

    Swaying against the cheeks of the lovely young woman;

  4. أو ذرتي صدف تعلقتا حلىً

    من جيد عاطلة السوالف رود

    Or two pearly grains from a shell, hung as ornaments,

    From a supple maiden's neck, its sides unadorned.

  5. وأما وضوء الأبيضين لأنتما

    قمرا سعودي في الليالي السود

    And indeed, by the light of the two white luminaries, you two are

    The two moons of my good fortune amid the black nights.

  6. أبنيَّ لا يجدِ التعلل عنكما

    بابن الغمام ولا ابنة العنقود

    O my two sons, it is no use seeking solace for your absence

    In the cloud's son or the grape cluster's daughter.