أَينَ مِنّي الصَّبْر عَن وَجهكَ أَينْ

بين قلبي وسُلُوِّي عنك بَينْ

Where is my patience from your face, where

Between my heart and my solace from you, between

واهِنُ العَزْمِ إِذا اِستَنجَدته

فتَّرَتْهُ فتراتُ المُقْلَتَيْنْ

Weak is determination when I seek its help

So it was weakened by the blinks of the two eyelids

صارَ مِن أَعوانِ عَينَيك كَذا

كلُّ قلْبٍ في الهوى عَوْناً لِعَيْنْ

Your eyes' allies became thus

Every heart in love an ally of the eye

أيُّها الرَّاقد عندي سَهَرٌ

يُكْمِد الواشي ويُبْكي العاذِلَيْنْ

O you who sleeps near me, my vigil

Torments the watcher and makes the abandoned weep

مِتُّ سُكْراً أَفَمِنْ كأسَيْ طِلا

رَاقَ لي رِيقُكَ أَمْ مِن شَفَتَينْ

Dead drunk, so was it from my cup

Or did your saliva flow to me or from two lips

أَنا لا أَصبِرُ عَمَّن وَجهُهُ

فَلَقٌ مُبْتَسمٌ في غَسَقَيْنْ

I cannot be patient with one whose face

Is a crescent smiling amidst two cheeks

تطْلُعُ الشَّمْسُ لنا من شَفَقٍ

وهو يبدو طالعاً من شَفَقَينْ

The sun rises for us from the horizon

While he appears rising from two horizons

قُلت لِلكاهِن حينَ اِختَلَست

عَينُهُ عَيني فَجر الحَين حَينْ

I said to the priest when he secretly glanced

At my eyes at dawn today when

قمرَ العَقربِ خوّفْتَ فَمَنْ

مُنْقِذِي من قمرٍ في عَقْرَبَينْ

You frightened Scorpio's moon so who

Will save me from a moon between two scorpion stings