زارَني واللَّيلُ أَليَل

ناعِسُ الأجفانِ أكحَل

He visited me when the night was long

With sleepy eyelids darkly lined

أَسمَرٌ والجفنُ مِنهُ

مِثلُ بيضِ الهندِ يَفعَل

Swarthy while his lids from him

Were like the white of an Indian nut

جاءَ في فترةِ طَرفٍ

وَدُجَى اللَّيلِ مُسَدَّل

He came at a time of love’s delight

When night’s darkness was let down

فَضَلَلنا بِظَلامِ الصُّ

دغِ لَمَّا راحَ مُرسَل

We were lost in the gloom of his

Departure’s sadness when he went

وَهَدانا بَرقُ ثَغرٍ

لاحَ من سِمطِ الُمقَبَّل

And guided us the lightning of a mouth

That smiled from a kissing bud

حَرَّمَ الشَّرعَ وَهذا

شَرعُهُ والهَجرَ حَلَّل

He forbade what law makes lawful

And lawful did his law declare parting

سَلَّ سَيفَ اللَّحظِ ظُلماً

وَحَمى للِظَّلمِ سَلسَل

He unsheathed the sword of his glance in darkness

And for this darkness forged a chain

قد أجنَّ الصُّدغُ منه

عارضاً فهو مُسَلسل

His temple was bent from him

To one side so it was chained

فيكَ يا كُلَّ الأَماني

مُجمَلُ الحُسنِ مُفَصَّل

In you O all of wishes

Combined beauty detailed

غِبتَ عَن عَيني وَلكن

أَنتَ في القَلبِ مُمَثَّل

You were absent from my eye but

You are depicted in my heart

إن تَكُن ثانِيَ عِطفٍ

واحداص في الحُسنِ أوَّلُ

If you are a second grace

Unique in beauty, you are the first

لا تَمِل فالغُصنُ قد حا

رَ بغُصنٍ منهُ أميَل

Do not weary though the branch was

Swayed aside by a branch more bending

صاحٍ سر بي نَحوَ سِربٍ

سَانحٍ بالغَورِ واسأل

Call out your secret to me, set out to the hills

Frank, seeking the hills, and ask

ريمُ هذا السِّربِ هَل في

ثغرهِ للصَّبِّ مَنهَل

The Sirab hills, is there in their

Mouths for passion a spring?