يَا خَدَّهُ وَثَنَايَا ثَغْرِهِ النّضِدِ

مَنْ سَوّغَ الجَمْعَ بَيْنَ الجَمْرِ وَالبَرَدِ

O cheek and curves of his alluring lips

Who made possible to join coal and ice together

وَيَا تَلَهُّبَ قَلْبِي فِي مَحَاسِنِهِ

قَدْ أُعْجِزَ الدَّمْعُ أَنْ يُطْفِيكَ فَاتَّقِدِ

And o burning of my heart for his beauty

Tears fail to extinguish you so blaze

مَا ضَرَّ مِعْطَفَكَ البَّادِي تَأَوُّدُهُ

لَوْ كَانَ يُبْقِي تَثَنِّيةِ عَلى أَوَدِي

Your visible cloak matters not its affection

If only it would keep a fold on the valleys

وَصَلْتَ هَجْرَكَ إِعْرِاضاً لِتَقْطَعَنِي

أَمَا كَفَاكَ الذِّي أَخْلَدْتَ فِي خَلَدِي

You connected your estrangement to cut me off

Isn’t what you consigned to my eternity enough

لَوْ كَانَ يَعْلَمُ طَرْفِي أَنْ يَزيدَ ظَماً

فِي وِرْدِهِ مَاءَ ذَاكَ الحُسْنِ لَمْ يَرِدِ

If my eyes knew to increase the tears

In their ritual for that beauty, it wouldn’t cease

فاليَوْمَ مِنْ فَرْطِ إِلْفِي بِالصَّبَابَةِ لَوْ

تَرُومُ نُقْصَانَ مَا أَلْقَى لَقُلْتُ زِدِ

For today, from my excessive friendship with youth

If it pretended decreasing what I found, I’d say give more

فَلاَ تُغِبْ نَاظِراً تَلْقَاكَ عَبْرَتُهُ

فالشَّمْسُ تُسْبِلُ دَمْعَ الأَعْيُنِ الرُّمُدِ

So don’t be absent, your tears meeting you

As the sun pours tears from sleepy eyes