1. يا مي وادي الشتا صرت جنادبه

    فطر شارب ذاك المجرم الجاني

    O Mayy, Wadi al-Shita's crickets have chirped;

    so may that criminal culprit's mustache be shorn!

  2. ذاك الذي كان قلبي يوم كنت به

    براً وكان علي الحادب الحاني

    That valley where my heart, when you were there,

    was virtuous, and which was my caring, tender guardian—

  3. أيام كان الهوى العذري يكلؤني

    وأعين الخفرات البيض ترعاني

    in the days when chaste love guarded me,

    and the eyes of fair, modest maidens watched over me.

  4. يامي دحنون وادي الحور حمرته

    قد شابها ببياض طل نيسان

    O Mayy, the redness of Wadi al-Hawr's anemones

    has been tinged with the whiteness of April's dew.

  5. ناشدتك اللّه والأردن هل قبسا

    خداك لونهما من لونه القاني

    I adjure you by God and Jordan: have

    your cheeks borrowed their hue from its deep crimson?

  6. يا مي شبنا وما تبنا فهل نزلت

    بما انتهينا إليه آي قرآن

    O Mayy, we have grown gray and not repented; so have

    verses of the Qur'an been revealed about what we have come to?

  7. والنفس تزخر بالآمال ساخرة

    مما تبيته يا مي أحزاني

    And the soul brims with hopes, scoffing

    at what my sorrows plot by night, O Mayy.