أهواه تركي اللحاظ يرق لي

فيه العذول إذا أطال جفائي

My love abandoned me, though my gaze still yearns

For him - the youth who's coldly left me to pine.

من أين يلزمه الوفاء لصبه

ولسانه لم يدر نطق الفاء

What duty's his to keep faith with a lad

Whose tongue can't yet shape the sound of "fidelity"?