أَرأَيتَ بي من حادثٍ إِشفاقا

في الحبِّ إِلا أَن يَكونَ فِراقا

Have you seen in me any distress of love

Except that it may be parting?

ذلُّ التَّهاجرِ كالتَّواصُلِ عندَما

لاقى مُحبُّكَ في الهَوى ما لاقى

The hardship of estrangement is like connection when

Your lover has met in passion what he met.

وجفونِ غانِيَةٍ رَمَت فتَراهَنَت

أَرواحُنا لنِصالِها أَسباقا

And the eyelids of a singer have aimed, so they competed

Our spirits for their arrows raced.

لا يَعشقُ العُشاقُ من لَحَظاتِها

إِلا سقاماً يَعشَقُ العُشاقا

The lovers do not love of their moments

Except sickness that the lovers love.

صَدَّت فَلَم أجزَع وقلتُ مُؤمِّلاً

سَيَردُّها من رَدَّ لي إِسحاقا

She turned away, so I did not despair, and I said, hoping

He will return her as Isaac returned to me.

من بَعد ما قَد حالَ صَرفُكَ دونَه

يا أَيُّها الزَّمنُ الخَؤون وعاقا

After what your circumstance has prevented

O you, time of sorrows and barrenness.

وصبرتُ للعَيشِ الذي كدَّرتَه

حتَّى صَفا بالرَّغم منكَ وراقا

And I was patient with life that you troubled

Until it cleared, despite you, and was docile.

بفَتىً كأنَّ المَجدَ أَعطاهُ بأن

لا يَستَجيبَ لِغَيرِهِ ميشاقا

With a young man as if glory had given him

That he does not respond to other than him valiantly.

لا تعجَبنَّ لمَن يَراكَ وبعض ما

تأتي فظَنَّ بكَ الشآمَ عِراقا

Do not be surprised by one who sees you, and some of what

Comes to you, so he thought the Levant Iraq.