1. جَزى اللَهُ أَيّام الفُراقِ مَلامَة

    إِلّا كل أَيّامِ الفُراقِ مليم

    May God repay the days of parting with reproach;

    but every day of parting is blameworthy.

  2. سَقى اللَهُ أَيّاماً تَلافين هامَتي

    بِريّ وَكانَت قَبلَ ذاكَ تحومُ

    May God water the days that rescued my head

    by quenching its thirst, when before it had hovered.

  3. وَقَد طالَعَتني يَوم اسفَل عاقِل

    كَذوب المُنى لِلسائِلينَ حروم

    And she appeared before me one day in lower ʿĀqil,

    a deceiver of hopes, unyielding to those who ask.

  4. رَمَتني وَستر اللَهُ بَيني وَبَينِها

    عَشيَّة آرام الكناس رَميم

    She shot at me, with God's veil between me and her,

    one evening—Ramīm, like the gazelles of the covert.

  5. الا رب يَوم لَو رَمَتني رَمَيتُها

    وَلكِن عَهدي بِالنِضالِ قَديم

    Ah, many a day, had she shot at me, I would have shot at her;

    but my days of archery are long past.

  6. رَميم الَّتي قالَت لِجارات بيتِها

    ضَمَنت لكُم الا يَزال يَهيم

    Ramīm, who told the women neighboring her house:

    “I guarantee you that he will never cease to wander in love.”