مُقِيمٌ لِلمُقِيمَةِ في فُؤَادِي

هَوَىً بَيْنَ السُّوَيْدَا والسَّوَادِ

Staying resident in my heart

Is a love between blond and black

وَوَجْدٌ مَا تُغَيِّرُهُ اللَّيَالي

حَفِظْتُ بِهِ عُهُودَ هَوَى سُعادِ

And a passion not changed by nights

I kept with it happy eras of love

دَعى مَنْ شَاءَ فِيكِ يَلُمْ كَثِيباً

غَرِيقاً في المَدَامِعَ وَهْوَ صَادِ

Let anyone who wished blame

Yearning, in tears and ardour intense

وَحَقِّ هَوَاكِ مَا فَقَدَتْ عُيُوني

مَدَامِعَهَا وَلاَ وَجَدَتْ رُقَادِي

By your love right, my eyes never lost

Their tears, nor found my slumber repose

سَقَى مَغْنَاكِ مِنْ هَضَبَاتِ نَجْدٍ

كُؤُوسُ القَطْرِ مِنْ أَيْدِي الغَوَادِي

Your singing watered from Nejd’s slopes

Goblets by hands of lads poured forth

فَكَمْ لِي فِيهِ مِنْ وَطَرٍ تَقَضَّى

بِأَحْيَانٍ عَلى وَفْقِ المُرَادِ

So how much solace was mine therein

With times as wished and as aspired

بِحَيْثُ دُنُوُّ سُعْدَى مِنْ تَدَانٍ

كَمَا نَهْوَى وبُعْدٍ مِنْ بُعَادِي

When my beloved fortune brought near

As we wished, far from estrangement dire

وَإِذْ أَنَا والمَلِيحَةُ فِي عِتَابٍ

يُلِينُ بِلُطْفِهِ عِطْفَ الجَمَادِ

My love and I, when caught in disdain

Would relent in its charm like the rigid

إِذَا ضَلَّتْ بِطُرَّتِهَا عُيُونِي

فَلِي مِنْ ثَغْرِهَا البَسَّامِ هَادِ

When her glances strayed from my eyes

I had from her smile a gentle guide

مِنَ الشُّعَرَاءِ دَمْعي في هَوَاهَا

تَهِيمُ سُيُولُهُ في كُلِّ وَادِ

Of the poets my tear in her love

Wandered its floods in every vale

فَدَيْتُكِ هَلْ أَذَبْتِ سِوَى جَمِيعي

وَمِنيِّ هَلْ تَرَكْتِ سِوَى وِدَادِي

Ransom you! Did you immolate other than all I own?

And of me did you leave other than my love?

وكَيْفَ يَكُونُ فِيكِ خَفَاءُ وَجْدي

وَهَذَا حُسْنُكِ الفَتَّانُ بَادِ

How can my passion for you still hidden be

When your beauty captivating is so manifest to see