لك يا مليحة مقلةٌ مع حاجبٍ

للسهمِ عن قوس لقلبي يرشق

For you, O beautiful one, are an eyelash against an eyebrow

Like an arrow from a bow piercing my heart

وحبال شعرٍ قد شقيت بحبها

إن الشقيَّ بكلِّ حبلٍ يخنق

And ropes of hair that have brought me misery in loving

Truly the miserable one is strangled by every rope