لي في بوادي الرقمتين غزال

هجمت عليّ لاجله العذال

I have in the valleys of the two live coals a gazelle

Who assaulted me for whose sake tribulations attacked me

وفنيت اذ نار تأج باضلعي

والعين يدفق دمعها السيال

And I was ruined when the fire kindled in my ribs

And the teardrops flowed copiously from my eyes

والبعد مزق مهجتي بنصاله

يا ما يسل من البعاد نصال

And the distance tore my inner parts with its arrows

Oh, how many arrows loosened from distance pierce

واشد من هذا واثقل وطأة

قلب به تتلاعب الآمال

And harder than this and heavier in weight

A heart in which hopes play

زعم اللقاء وراح يرقب وقته

ولها ويمزج بالزعوم محال

Claiming the meeting and going observing its time

While for it and mixing with claims absurdities

اغزال وادي الرقمتين وانت قد

غشاك من لطف الجمال جلال

Oh gazelles of the valley of the two live coals while you

Are covered in the splendor of beauty and glory

رفقا بمحروق الفؤاد موله

قد اقعدته من النوى الاثقال

Be gentle with the scorched heart its inclination

Has made it sit from the heavy wishes

هزته بالوجد الملح اليك من

اجزائه الاطوار والاحوال

You have shaken it with intense passion for you from

Its parts diverse states and conditions

فمتى ذكرت كأن ارض فؤاده

للشوق يرجف كلها زلزال

So whenever you are remembered it is as if the earth of his heart

Quivers all of it with yearning like an earthquake

يبكي الطلول لاجل وجهك مغرما

ولأهلها قد تندب الاطلال

The young ones cry for your face enamored

And for its people the abandoned ruins lament

ولرب برق بالغوير اثارني

لذوي الحمى ولكل حال حال

And perhaps lightning in Ghuwayr aroused me

For the feverish and for every state is a state

شوق يلح وزفرة لا تنطفي

وصبابة ضربت بها الامثال

Yearning insists and sigh never extinguished

And smoldering which has hit the proverbs

لم يبق لي عضو ولم يمزج به

وله عليك تغز منه نبال

There did not remain for me a limb and mixed with it

Is for you arrows that pierce from it

حاولتني واحتلت رأيك قطعتي

ولقد يضل برأيه المحتال

You have tried me and your opinion has conquered me

He who is misguided by his opinion errs

خذ ما بدا لك من زعومك واحتكم

او ليس هذي الحادثات ظلال

Take what appears to you of your delusions and judge

Or are not these occurrences mere shadows