1. ولما رأيتُ الدمعَ غاصَ إلى الحشا

    وأن فؤادي من دموعي في بحرِ

    And when I saw the tears had sunk into my inner depths,

    and that my heart lay in a sea of my tears,

  2. نظرت إلى عينيَّ لا ماءَ فيهما

    فأيقنت أن الدمعَ تحتهما يجري

    I looked at my two eyes: there was no water in them;

    so I knew for certain that tears were flowing beneath them.

  3. فلولا استبانَ الدمعُ في مضمرِ الحشا

    تفجرَ أنهارُ الدموع من الصدرِ

    And had the tears not appeared in the hidden depths of my breast,

    rivers of tears would have burst forth from my chest.

  4. على أن قلبي ينشفُ الدمعَ حرهُ

    وأين بقايا الدمعِ في وَهَجِ الجَمرِ

    Yet the heat of my heart dries up the tears—

    and where could remnants of tears be amid the glow of embers?