1. قاسيت حبك لم يعلم به أحد

    ولم يقل لي خليل ما الذي تجد

    I endured my love for you, and no one knew of it.

    And no friend asked me, “What is it you feel?”

  2. إن الحشا لم تزل سترا فهتكها

    عن كل من سترته الشوق والكمد

    Indeed, the heart had always been a veil; then it was torn away

    From all whom it concealed, by longing and grief.

  3. يا ذا الذي ليس تخلو منه جارحةٌ

    ولا تعادله روحٌ ولا جسد

    O you, of whom no limb is devoid,

    And whom neither soul nor body can equal.

  4. ما زال دمعي يسقي ورده كبدي

    حتى صدرت ولا دمعٌ ولا كبدُ

    My tears kept giving my liver their draught,

    Until I came away, with neither tears nor liver left.