أو قد البين بين جنبيّ نارا

ونحا القلب ركبهم فاستجارا

Between my ribs burned a fire,

And my heart took its reins and begged for help.

أيها القلب إن أتيت ديارا

لا حباي فابك عني الديارا

O heart, if you come to dwellings

Where my loved ones are not, weep for the dwellings.

ليتهم يعلمون إذ خلَّفوني

أبعث الدمع خلفهم مدرارا

If only they knew, when they left me behind,

I sent tears flowing copiously after them.

قد شربنا كاس الخمور عقارا

لو شربنا كاس الثغور عقارا

We drank the wine of the vineyards to the dregs;

If only we drank the wine of the battlefields to the dregs!

خمرة دنّها المراشف ظلنا

سعد منها معربدين سكارى

The wine whose jars the cushions shaded -

Happy were those made drunk on it, squirming about!

بي غزالا بالأجرعين أغنّاً

شادنا علَّم الغزال النفارا

With does at the water-holes it made me sing,

And the does taught the wild goat to take fright.

كم رعينا من ثغره أقحوانا

وقطعنا من خدّه جلنارا

How many times did we pasture our mounts

And cut from their cheeks the haltars!

مرسلاً فوق متنه افعوانا

أرقما يقذف السمام شرارا

Letting serpents glide on their backs,

Bristling, shooting their darts here and there.

قد خلعنا به الوقار جميعا

وحقيق لو قد خلعنا الوقارا

With it we all cast dignity aside,

And truly, if we cast dignity aside!