إن قلبا أخفى الغرام زمانا

عاد فيه الهوى كما قد كانا

Indeed, a heart that concealed its passion for a time—

love returned within it, just as it had been before.

حركت ساكن التياعي بدور

ركب اللَه تحتها اغصانا

Full moons stirred my slumbering anguish;

God had set branches beneath them.

بي شموساً بدت بنعمان ليلا

فكست حلة الضحى نعمانا

I would give my life for suns that appeared in Nuʿmān by night,

and clothed Nuʿmān in a robe of midmorning light.

شمت من بينهن ظبية خدر

سحبت للردى بنا اردانا

Among them I glimpsed a gazelle of the secluded chamber,

who trailed her sleeves, drawing us toward death.

كنت من قبلها عزيزاً ولكن

ذقت ذلاً من حبها وهوانا

Before her, I had dignity, but

from loving her I tasted abasement and humiliation.