رَأى جُرحَ قَلبي مِن سِهامِ جُفونِهِ

رَأى جُرحَ قَلبي مِن سِهامِ جُفونِهِ

فَقالَ بَليغٌ موجبٌ للبوارِ

فَقالَ بَليغٌ موجبٌ للبوارِ

He saw my heart’s wound from the arrows of his eyelids,

He saw my heart's wound from the arrows of his eyelashes

and said, “A grievous wound, certain to bring death.”

So an eloquent one deemed me worthy of calamity

وَقَد رامَ قَتلي أَن أَموت سِرايةً

وَقَد رامَ قَتلي أَن أَموت سِرايةً

فَشَممني وَاللّه مِسك العذارِ

فَشَممني وَاللّه مِسك العذارِ

And he had sought to kill me, that I might die as the wound spread,

And he wanted me dead in secret

so, by God, he made me smell the musk of his cheek-down.

Yet, by God, he smelled me with the musk of chastity