1. أَصابَ فُؤادِي منكَ ما كنتُ أحذرُ

    وما ذاكَ إلا أنه ليسَ يقصرُ

    What I feared from you has struck my heart.

    And that is only because it does not desist.

  2. وعينٍ كعينِ الماءِ من كثرةِ البُكا

    يُرى نومها شوقاً معَ الدَّمعِ ينظرُ

    And an eye, like a spring of water from so much weeping—

    Its sleep is seen, in longing, watching alongside the tears.

  3. إِذا استتبَع الدَّمعُ الكَرى مَر مُسرعاً

    إِلى الوردِ جيران له عنهُ يصدرُ

    When tears draw slumber after them, it passes swiftly

    To the watering place, where it has neighbors, and from which it departs.

  4. ولو كانَ صَبرِي مثلَ شَوقي تقاوما

    ولكنَّ شَوقي من عزائيَ أكبرُ

    And were my patience equal to my longing, they would counterbalance each other;

    Yet my longing is greater than my fortitude.