1. براني الضنى حتى خفيت عن الورى

    وأمسيت في طي الوجود مقدرا

    Wasting sickness wore me away until I was hidden from humankind.

    And I became, in the folds of existence, merely implied.

  2. كأني ضمير يستحيل بروزه

    أقدّر في الأوهام شيئاً ولا أرى

    As though I were a pronoun that could never appear explicitly:

    I am reckoned as something in the imagination, yet I am not seen.

  3. وقد كنت أشكو قلة النوم والضنى

    فمن لي بأن ألقى السقام وأسهرا

    And I once complained of scant sleep and wasting sickness;

    Who, then, can grant that I suffer sickness and stay awake?

  4. وأنكرني من لست أعرف غيره

    وقال متى رق الفتى وتغيرا

    And the one besides whom I know no other failed to recognize me,

    And said, “When did the young man grow thin and change?”

  5. فواحرقي مما ألاقيه في الهوى

    وشوقي إلى من لا يرى فيه ما أرى

    Ah, how I burn from what I suffer in love,

    And my longing for one in whom others do not see what I see!

  6. أعلل نفسي باللقاء وأجتني

    ثمار الأماني في الغرام تصبّرا

    I console myself with the hope of meeting, and gather

    The fruits of wishes in passionate love, striving for patience.