صِلْني فَقَدْ والهَوى يا أَحْسَنَ النَّاسِ

وَصَلْتَ بِالهَجْرِ لي تَقْطيعَ أَنْفاسي

Connect with me, for love has possessed me, O fairest of mankind,

Yet you have severed me, cutting short my breath through estrangement,

أَثْبَتَّ سَهْمَكَ في قَلْبي فَكانَ لَهُ

لَمَّا تَعَمَّدْتَهُ في حالِ بُرجاسِ

You fixed your arrow in my heart, and it belonged to him

When you deliberately lodged it at the time of parting.

كَمْ قَدْ شَرِقْتُ بِرَدِّي دَمْعَةً بَدَرَتْ

لَمَّا تَرَكْتُ رَجائِي في يَدِ القاسي

How often my tears flowed like the rising full moon

When I lost hope in the hand of the cruel one.

سالَتْ فَلَمَّا خَشِيتُ الوَجْدَ يُظْهِرُها

فَيَغْتَدي كَلَفِي قَدْ شاعَ في النَّاسِ

It flowed, but when I feared grief would reveal it

And my anguish, already spread among the people, would exult,

سَتَرْتُ بِالكَأسِ لَحْظي عَنْ لَواحِظِهِ

عَمْداً وغَيَّضْتُها في لُجَّةِ الكاسِ

I hid my glance from its observer with a cup,

Deliberately, and drowned it in the darkness of the cup.