لَيلٌ طَويلٌ وَجُفونٌ قِصار

ما نَلتَقي أَو نَلتَقي في الدِيار

A long night and short eyelids

Whether we meet or meet in the homelands

جيرانَنا بِالغَورِ عودوا لَقَد

كُنتُم لَنا بِالغَورِ نِعمَ الجِوار

Our neighbors in the caves have returned indeed

You were good neighbors to us in the caves

صَيَّرتُمُ الدَمعَ دَمَاً ساكِباً

في وَجنَتَيَّ وَالنورَ في القَلبِ نارُ

You have shed tears that bleed

Into my cheeks and the light in my heart is fire

يا حارِ لَو عايَنَ حادي النَوى

ما حَلَّ بي مِن لَوعَةِ البَينِ حار

O passer, if the companion of the travel saw

What has befallen me from the agony of separation, he would pass

قَلبٌ عَلى أَحبابِهِ خافِقٌ

وَمُقلَةٌ تَجري دُموعاً غِزار

A heart throbbing for its loved ones

And an eyelid flowing copious tears

لا وَالَّذي يَجمَعُ شَملي بِهِم

ما سَرَّني رَكبُهُمُ حينَ سار

No, by Him who will reunite me with them

I was not pleased when they departed

أَقولُ لِلساقي سُحَيراً أَدِر

عَلى نَدامايَ كُئوسَ العُقار

I say to the cupbearer jokingly, pass

Goblets of wine to my regrets

في جَنَّةٍ تَسجَعُ أَطيارُها

عَلى جَنيِ مَنثورِها وَالبَهار

In a garden, where its birds twitter

Over its ripened fruits and blossoms

عُجمٌ لَو اِسطَعتُ إِذا غَرَّدَت

بَذَلتُ في كُلِّ هِزارٍ هَزار

Inarticulate, if I shine whenever it sings

I would give away in every jest, a jest