ولما تقضيتُ الدموعَ جرى دمٌ

ولما تقضيتُ الدموعَ جرى دمٌ

من العينِ لا تبقي عليه المحاجرُ

من العينِ لا تبقي عليه المحاجرُ

And when I had exhausted my tears, blood flowed

When my tears were done, blood

From the eye; the sockets spare none of it.

Flowed from my eyes, the eyelids could not stop it,

ولا عذرَ لي في صبوةٍ عند غادرٍ

ولا عذرَ لي في صبوةٍ عند غادرٍ

من الناسِ إلا أنَّني لك ذاكرُ

من الناسِ إلا أنَّني لك ذاكرُ

And I have no excuse for infatuation before a faithless one

And I have no excuse for my outpouring before one who has deserted

Among people, except that I remember you.

Me from among men, except that I remember you.

إذا غبراني أربعينَ ملالةً

إذا غبراني أربعينَ ملالةً

من الحينِ أو أن يعذرَ الشوق حاضرُ

من الحينِ أو أن يعذرَ الشوق حاضرُ

If they both cover me with dust—forty bouts of weariness (wording unclear)—

When forty days of ennui beset me,

From time, or that someone present should excuse longing.

Or longing is excused by one who is present,

ولي زفرةٌ أذكى من النارِ حالفَت

ولي زفرةٌ أذكى من النارِ حالفَت

أوائلَ شوقٍ ما لهنَّ أواخِرُ

أوائلَ شوقٍ ما لهنَّ أواخِرُ

And I have a sigh more fiercely blazing than fire, which has made a pact

And I have a sigh more scorching than fire, pledged

With beginnings of longing that have no endings.

To the beginnings of a longing that has no end.