أَلا مَن لِعَينٍ لا تَزالُ تَسِيلُ

وَعَينُ المُحبِّ المُستَهامِ هَمُولُ

Alas! For the eye that continues to shed tears,

And the eye of the lover lost in longing.

وَطَرفٍ أَبى يا عَمرَ إِلّا اتِّباعَكُم

وَقَلبٍ أَبى إِلّا عَلَيكِ يَجُولُ

For the eyelid that refused but to follow you,

And the heart that refused but to roam towards you.

أَبي شِقوةً أَن يَرعَوي وَهوَ مالَهُ

إِلَيها أُرى حَتّى المَماتِ سَبيلُ

It refuses misery that it may pasture while owning it,

I see that the path to it is death.

وَهاجَ لَهُ حُبُّ البَخيلَةِ حُزنَهُ

وَقِدماً يُحَبُّ الشَيءُ وَهوَ بَخيلُ

And the love of the miserly one provoked his grief,

Yet the foot loves the thing while he is stingy.

وَإِنّي وَإِنحَلَّأتِ قَلبي لَقائلٌ

وَذَو البَثِّ يَعنيهِ الهَوى فَيَقُولُ

And if my heart is ripped apart, I would say -

While the separater means the love so he says:

حَبَستِ هَداكِ اللَهُ قَلبي لِحَقِّهِ

وَتَقضي نِساءٌ ما لَهُنَّ قَليلُ

"God has made my heart stick to His truth,

While women fulfill what is little for them."

وَلَو شاءَ قَلبي باعَ غَيرَكِ فَاِقتَضى

وَلَكِنَّهُ يَأَبى وَأَنتِ مَطُولُ

And if my heart had wanted, it would have sold others, but

It refuses while you are long (lived).

وَإِنَّ إِنصِرافي عَنكِ لا تُنقِصينَ لي

مِنَ الحَقِّ شَيئاً فَاعلَمي لِثَقِيلُ

And my turning away from you does not

Diminish anything of the truth from me, so know that it is heavy (hard).

يَقُولُ نِساءٌ حُبُّ عَمرَةَ شَفَّني

زَعَمنَ وَفي جِسمي لِذاكَ نُحُولُ

Women say Umarah's love healed me,

They claimed, and in my body there is emaciation from that.

وَوَاللَهِ ما أَحبَبتُها حُبَّ رِيبَةٍ

وَلَكنَّما ذاكَ الحُبابُ قَتُول

By God, I did not love her with doubtful love,

But that love is lethal.

دَعَت قَلبَهُ عَينٌ إِلَيها مَشُومَةٌ

عَلَيهِ وَعَينٌ لِلفُؤاذِ دَليلُ

An eye with bad omen called his heart to it,

At it, and an eye guiding to hair-tips.

لَدى الجَمرَةِ الوُسطى أَصيلاً وَحَولَها

نَواعِمُ حُورٌ دَلُّهُنَّ جَميلُ

At the middle ember, noble, and around it

Young maidens, houris, their beauty enticing.

تَكَنَّفنَها مِن كُلِّ شِقٍّ كَأَنَّها

سَحابَةُ صَيفٍ تَنجَلي وَتَحيلُ

They surrounded it from every side, as if it

Were a summer cloud, unveiling and folding.

إِذا ضَرَبَت بِالبُردِ مِن دُونِ وَجهِها

تَلالا أَحَمُّ المُقلَتَينِ أَسِيلُ

If she hits with coolness from beneath her face,

Hillocks, the black of the two eyes more black.

عَلى جِيدِ أَدماءٍ مِنَ الوَحشِ حُرَّةٍ

لَها نَظَرٌ يُبلي المَشُوقَ كَلِيلُ

On a neck from the wild animals, smooth

Having a glance that wears out the pining lover.