أَشاقَتكَ أَطلالُ الدِيارِ كَأَنَّما

مَعارِفُها بِالأَبرَقَينِ بُرودُ

The ruins of the abode have pined for you as though

Its friends with the two brilliances were ice

أَلا قاتَلَ اللَهُ الهَوى ما أَشَدَّهُ

وَأَصرَعَهُ لِلمَرءِ وَهوَ جَليدُ

Alas! May God destroy love - how intense it is!

And it fells a man while he is frozen

فَقُل لِلهَوى لا يَألُوَنِّيَ جَهدُه

فَلَيسَ عَلى ما قَد وَجَدتُ مُزيدُ

So say to love, "Its toil does not tire me,

For there is no increase to what I have found"

دَعاني الهَوى مِن نَحوِها فَأَجَبتُهُ

فَأَصبَحَ بي يَستَنُّ حَيثُ يُريدُ

Love called me from her direction, so I answered

Thus in the morning it escorts me wherever it wills

سَقى اللَهُ عَيشاً قَد مَضى وَحَلاوَةً

لَوَ أَنَّ المُنى يُرجِعنَهُ فَيَعودُ

May God water a life now passed and sweetness -

If only the goal would bring it back to return

إِذا الحَولُ ثُمَّ الحَولُ تَمضي شُهورُهُ

عَلَينا وَلَم يَعلَم لَهُنَّ عَديدُ

When the year, then the next year pass by its months

Upon us, and we do not know their number