أرقني يا حمامُ ذا الكمدِ

أرقني يا حمامُ ذا الكمدِ

فهل وجدْتَ الهوى كما أجدُ

فهل وجدْتَ الهوى كما أجدُ

This grief has kept me sleepless, O dove.

The dove's cooing deprived me of sleep

Have you, then, felt love as I feel it?

Did you find passion like I do?

بتُّ على الغصنِ نائحاً غرِداً

بتُّ على الغصنِ نائحاً غرِداً

وبتُّ أبكي الذينَ قدْ بعدوا

وبتُّ أبكي الذينَ قدْ بعدوا

I spent the night on the bough, wailing and singing,

I spend the night lamenting on the branch, chirping,

And I spent the night weeping for those who have gone far away.

I spend the night weeping for those who are far away

وأعيني ما تزالُ واكفةً

وأعيني ما تزالُ واكفةً

وأضلعي ما تزالُ تتقدُ

وأضلعي ما تزالُ تتقدُ

And my eyes still stream with tears,

My eyes still shed tears

And my ribs still blaze.

And my ribs are still aflame

إنا كلانا لعاشقٌ دنفٌ

إنا كلانا لعاشقٌ دنفٌ

طارَ بنومي ونومكَ السهدُ

طارَ بنومي ونومكَ السهدُ

Indeed, we are both lovers, sick with longing;

We are both passionate lovers

Sleeplessness has flown off with my sleep and yours.

Insomnia took away both my sleep and yours

فنحِّ رويداً فما سوى كبدي

فنحِّ رويداً فما سوى كبدي

تذوبُ يا باعثَ الجوى كبدُ

تذوبُ يا باعثَ الجوى كبدُ

So draw aside gently; apart from my liver,

So coo slowly, for nothing but my liver

No liver melts, O stirrer of love's anguish.

Melts away, O rouser of passions, my liver

لي مهجةٌ تعشقُ الجمالَ وهلْ

لي مهجةٌ تعشقُ الجمالَ وهلْ

يلامُ في حبِّ روحهِ الجسدُ

يلامُ في حبِّ روحهِ الجسدُ

I have a heart that loves beauty; and is

I have an affection that loves beauty, and is it

The body to blame for loving its soul?

Blamed for the body's love of the soul?

عذبها بالصدودِ ذو هيفٍ

عذبها بالصدودِ ذو هيفٍ

أغيدٌ قد زانَ جيدَهُ الجيدُ

أغيدٌ قد زانَ جيدَهُ الجيدُ

One of slender waist tormented it by turning away,

Charm it with repeated turning away, O softly speaking one

Supple, his neck adorned with graceful length.

A melodious voice whose neck beauty has adorned

تعزُّ في حسنهِ الظباءُ وقد

تعزُّ في حسنهِ الظباءُ وقد

ذللَ في ملكِ حسنِهِ الأسدُ

ذللَ في ملكِ حسنِهِ الأسدُ

In his beauty the gazelles are exalted, while

The gazelles glory in his beauty, and

In the kingdom of his beauty, the lion has been humbled.

The lion has been subdued by the power of his beauty

قفا على دارهِ فاسألاهُ

قفا على دارهِ فاسألاهُ

أقلُ من وعدِهِ الذي يعدُ

أقلُ من وعدِهِ الذي يعدُ

Halt at his dwelling, you two, and ask him:

Stand at his abode and ask him

Is anything less than the promise he makes?

Does he fulfill the promise he makes?

وغنيا إن رأيتما طللاً

وغنيا إن رأيتما طللاً

أقفرَ بعدَ الأحبةِ البلدُ

أقفرَ بعدَ الأحبةِ البلدُ

And sing, you two, if you see a ruined dwelling:

And sing, if you see the places of the loved ones

The land has grown desolate since the loved ones departed.

Desolated after the loved ones left the country