أطعتَ وخَالَفت الهَوى والتذكرا

فكدَّرت عَيشاً صافياً فتكدَّرا

You obeyed and went against desire and recollection

So you troubled a serene living, and it became troubled

على دنفٍ لو آثرَ العتبَ قلبُهُ

وأوحشَهُ طُولُ الضنا ليُبصرا

To a bosom, if his heart preferred blame

And solitude made it desolate, so it could see

ولكنَّه أمسى كئيباً متيماً

ألحَّ عليهِ شوقُهُ فتحيرا

But it spent the night gloomy and yearning

Its longing insisted on it, so it became confused

وطارَ من البينِ المشتِّ فؤادُهُ

وقد كان من ذكرِ الفِراقِ تطيَّرا

And its heart flew from the intermediate separation

And it had become because of the memory of parting, birds