1. إيهاً دَعِ اللَومَ عَنّي لَستُ مُزدَجِرا

    لا تَسلُك اللَومَ مِنّي مَسلَكاً وَعِرا

    Enough! Leave off blaming me; I will not be deterred.

    Do not tread a rugged path in reproaching me.

  2. رُقادُ عَينِيَ مِن عَيني بِمَنزِلَةٍ

    لَكِنَّها في الهَوى تَستَحسِنُ السَهَرا

    My eye holds its slumber in esteem,

    but in love it finds sleeplessness pleasing.

  3. ما ضَرَّ مَن كان مَهجوراً وَمُجتَنِباً

    لَو أَنَّهُ لَم يَكُن قَبلَ الهَوى بَشَرا

    What harm would have befallen one forsaken and withdrawn,

    had he not been human before love?

  4. أَمُرُّ بِالحَجَرِ القاسي فَأَغبِطُهُ

    لِأَنَّ قَلبَكِ عِندي يُشبِهُ الحَجَرا

    I pass the hard stone and envy it,

    for, to me, your heart resembles stone.

  5. أَنا المُقِرُّ بِذَنبٍ لَستُ صاحِبُهُ

    إِن كانَ ذَنبٌ عَلى الإِقرارِ مُغتَفَرا

    I confess to a sin of which I am innocent,

    if a sin is forgiven upon confession.

  6. أَحبَبتُ مِن حُبِّها مَن كانَ يُشبِهُها

    حَتّى لَقَد صِرتُ أَهوى الشَمسَ وَالقَمَرا

    Out of love for her, I loved whoever resembled her,

    until I came to love the sun and the moon.

  7. وَما ضَمِنتُ لَها سِرّاً فَأَكتُمَهُ

    إِلّا حَفَظتُ عَلَيهِ الدَمعَ وَالبَصَرا

    And never did I undertake to conceal a secret for her,

    without keeping tears and gaze under guard for its sake.

  8. لَها المجازُ عَلى عَيني فَأَمنَعُها

    أَن تَستَتِمَّ إِذا ما تَطرُفُ النَظَرا

    Her passage is across my eye, so I restrain it

    from completing its gaze whenever it blinks.

  9. إِذا تَخَوَّفتُ أَن تَبدو سَرائِرُها

    كَلَّفتُها في الحَشا الكِتمانَ وَالحَذَرا

    When I feared that her secrets might emerge,

    I charged them, within my breast, with concealment and caution.

  10. لَم يَعدُها الشَوقُ قَلبي وَهيَ في يَدِها

    لَقَد تَسَلّى بِها أَو بي لَقَد غَدَرا

    Longing did not carry my heart beyond her, while it lay in her hand;

    it has indeed found solace in her—or has surely betrayed me.