كم أنتَ واللهِ تُحسَدْ

باللْحظِ والروحِ والقدّْ

How enviable you are, by God

With your glance, spirit, and stature

عيناك عينا مهاةٍ

والشعر كالليلِ أسودْ

Your eyes are the eyes of a gazelle

And your hair is black as the night

والثغرُ عِقدُ لآلٍ

يا ليتني فيه أُنضَدْ

Your smile a string of pearls

Would that I could thread them

إني وحيدُ القوافي

وأنتَ بالحسن أَوحَدْ

I am alone in rhyming

While you are unmatched in beauty

ففيمَ هذا التجافي

والهجرُ يا حلو والصَّدّْ

Why this aloofness

And estrangement, O sweet and cold one

لكم سهرتُ الليالي

وقلت: يا نجمُ فاشْهَدْ

How many nights I stayed up

Saying: O star, bear witness

بأنَّني منهُ مضنى

وأنني فيه أُحْسَدْ

That I am sick with longing for him

And that I envy him

وأنّه يتجنّى

وأنَّني أَتَجلَّدْ

And that he is shy

And I am patient

وكلَّما رُمتُ وعداً

بهجرِه يتوعَّدْ

And whenever I intend to abandon

His estrangement, he threatens anew

وإنْ خلوتُ بنفسي

وجدتُها تَتَمرَّدْ

And when alone with myself

I find it rebelling

أقول، يا نفسُ صبراً

فبابُه غيرُ موصَدْ

I say: O soul, have patience

For his door is not barred

أقولها وفؤادي

على اللظى يتوقَّدْ

I say this while my heart

Burns with agony

مُنى غدي أنتَ لكنْ

سيَّان أمسي والغَدّْ

My wish tomorrow is you

But yesterday and tomorrow are the same

وأنتَ محرابُ قلبي

فحيثما كنتَ يَسجُدْ

You are the shrine of my heart

So wherever you are it bows down