يا شادناً بالله قفْ

أشكو الصبابةَ والكَلَفْ

O gazelle, by God, stop—

That I may lament my yearning and consuming passion.

ارحم فديتُك عاشقاً

قد صار للبلوى هَدَف

Have mercy—may I ransom you—on a lover

Who has become a target for affliction.

أنت الذي أدنفتَه

فكن الطبيبَ من الدَّنَف

You are the one who made him waste away;

So be the physician for his wasting sickness.

يا واحداً في حسنه

صيَّرتَني نهب التلف

O you, peerless in beauty,

You have made me the plunder of destruction.