إن هداني في اللَّيلِ عَنبرُ خَالِه

ثَغرهُ لا محيدَ لي عن زُلالِه

In the night his cheek's radiance guides me,

Its charm I cannot evade.

أو أراني برقُ الثَّنايا لَمُوعاً

شِمتُهُ بالمدامعِ الهطَّاله

Or lightning from the clouds makes me see

His eyes with pouring tears inundated.

بدرُ تمِّ إن ينقُصِ البَدرُ لا ين

قُصُ شيءٌ من حُسنهِ وَكَمالِه

Though the full moon may decrease, its essence

Stays perfect, nothing subtracted.

ما انثَنى قدُّهُ وما ماسَ إِلاَّ

أَخجَلَ الغُصنَ من تَثَنِّي دَلاِله

His posture sways not except to humble

The bending boughs with grace saturated.

عمَّهُ خالُهُ جَمالاً وَقَد خَصَّ

فؤادي بهَجرهِ وَمَلالِه

His cheek took all the beauty, and my heart

He overwhelmed with his disdain belated.

لَيتَهُ إِذ أَذاقَ قلبي هجراً

جادَ يوماً لهُ بطيبِ وصَالِه

Would that when to my heart his aloofness dealt

He had also given union elated!

قُل لهُ يا حبيبُ رِفقاً بِصَبِّ

عَاشِقٍ قَد سَكنتَ بالي وَبَاله

Say to him, my love, be gentle with

A doting lover whom you dominated.

وارثِ للعاشِقِ الذي لا يرَاهُ ال

دَّهرُ يوماً يُصغي إِلى عُذالِه

Inherit from a doter whom fate

Has never let his plaints be placated.

فَلِهِجرانِهِ أَرى النَّومَ فرضاً

فَلَعلِّي أحظَى بِطَيفِ خَيالِه

For his estrangement I make sleep a duty,

Hoping to be blessed with his specter created.